Because of last year's riots in Oldham, police have appealed for calm following the attack on an old boy of Whitworth High School. |
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The thief behind the wheel set off while his accomplice ran behind him down Whitworth Street West. |
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I have an old machine which has Whitworth screws on so to find out which they were I got a Whitworth thread gauge from my local D.I.Y. shop. |
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A badly injured hang-glider was airlifted to hospital after crashing on the moorland above Whitworth. |
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He was at Bacup during the severe winter of 1947, when trains were snowed up in the Whitworth area. |
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Whitworth councillor Tom Aldred said the disappearance of the former town clerk was still a talking point in the district. |
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The life of a Romanian street child could not be more removed from that of a teenager growing up in Whitworth. |
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They were also less prone to misalignment or cross threading than either the traditional design or even the Whitworth thread. |
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The on-going problem of scrambling across moors in Whitworth was one of the reasons they set up a set area for bikers to use. |
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Because of the police diversion there were huge hold-ups with rush hour traffic along Whitworth Road. |
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Consistency and cost issues were key in Whitworth College's decision to abandon outsourcing. |
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But the chart toppers were not alone as punks, a mechanic and a North American Indian took to the streets of Whitworth to raise money for eight-year-old Rose. |
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Calm, mannerly, fond of bowties, Whitworth was a workaholic. |
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The family had only moved to the house on Whitworth Road four months ago. |
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Labour candidates fought the election in Whitworth on that issue. |
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Featuring an optional telescopic sight and a high muzzle velocity, the Whitworth could strike at a thousand yards and beyond. |
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The advance in the accuracy of machine tools can be traced to Henry Maudslay and refined by Joseph Whitworth. |
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The earliest warehouses were built around King Street although by 1850 warehouses had spread to Portland Street and later to Whitworth Street. |
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In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads. |
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In 1850, architect Edward Walters was commissioned to build 'The Firs' for Whitworth. |
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Whitworth received many awards for the excellence of his designs and was financially very successful. |
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In 1868, he founded the Whitworth Scholarship for the advancement of mechanical engineering. |
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In January 1887 at the age of 83, Sir Joseph Whitworth died in Monte Carlo where he had travelled in the hope of improving his health. |
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Whitworth was commissioned by the War Department of the British government to design a replacement for the calibre. |
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Whitworth died aged 64, on 30 March 1799 and Samuel Fletcher, previously the inspector of works took over as engineer. |
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Josiah Clowes was appointed head engineer, surveyor and carpenter to the canal in 1783 to assist Whitworth. |
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English machine tool manufacturer Joseph Whitworth was appointed as a British commissioner for the New York International Exhibition. |
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During the passage of the bill, the towns of Whitworth, Wilmslow and Poynton successfully objected to their incorporation in the new county. |
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Jean Whitworth and Joe Braithwaite read autocues in the Breakfast studio, and Philip Smith gave the weather forecast. |
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In the post-war period Armstrong Whitworth became involved in the Vulcan bomber production of missiles, especially the Sea Slug. |
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Here again Babbage is considered a pioneer, with Henry Maudslay, William Sellers, and Joseph Whitworth. |
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In recognition of his achievements and contributions to education in Manchester, the Whitworth Building on the University of Manchester's Main Campus is named in his honour. |
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Near 'The Firs' a cycleway behind Owens Park is called Whitworth Lane. |
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A statue of Turing was unveiled in Manchester on 23 June 2001 in Sackville Park, between the University of Manchester building on Whitworth Street and Canal Street. |
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The plan was that Whitworth would become a partner in the business. |
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After leaving school Whitworth became an indentured apprentice to his uncle, Joseph Hulse, a cotton spinner at Amber Mill, Oakerthorpe in Derbyshire. |
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Whitworth was born in Stockport, Cheshire, the son of Charles Whitworth, a teacher and Congregational minister, and at an early age developed an interest in machinery. |
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Whitworth Street and Whitworth Hall in Manchester are named in his honour. |
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At his death in 1887, he bequeathed much of his fortune for the people of Manchester, with the Whitworth Art Gallery and Christie Hospital partly funded by Whitworth's money. |
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Joseph Whitworth, at that time one of Clement's journeymen afterwards played a major role in such standardisation, the Whitworth thread becoming a standard for machine screws. |
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Robert Whitworth then surveyed two routes, the first as suggested by Priddy, and the second direct from the Severn to the Thames following the valley of the River Coln. |
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Sometime after 1825 Whitworth went to work for Maudslay and it was there that Whitworth perfected the hand scraping of master surface plane gages. |
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Queen Victoria opened the first meeting of the National Rifle Association at Wimbledon, in 1860 by firing a Whitworth rifle from a fixed mechanical rest. |
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