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Melling School
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Melling may refer to: Places * Melling, Merseyside, an area of Sefton, Merseyside, England * Melling, Lancashire, a village near Carnforth, Lancashire, England * Melling, New Zealand, a suburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand ** Melling Branch, a railway branch line ** Melling railway station Motorsport * Melling Racing, a NASCAR team that ran from 1982 to 2003 Other uses * Melling (surname) * ''Melling'', name of a GWR Hawthorn Class 2-4-0 locomotive * ''Melling School'', a book series by Margaret Biggs, published in the 1950s and 1960s See also *Meling Meling is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Andreas Meling (1839–1928), Norwegian ship owner and politician *Birger Meling (born 1994), Norwegian footballer *Brynjar Meling (born 1967), Norwegian lawyer *Gerhard Meling (1892– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melling, Merseyside
Melling is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England. At the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 Census the population was recorded as 2,810, rising to 3,493 at the 2011 Census. Melling Rock contains a public house as well as ''Thomas the Apostle, St Thomas and the Holyrood (cross), Holy Rood''. The town of Waddicar, of which most of the population of Melling consists, is usually regarded as part of Melling itself and is served by the parish council which is based in the local Melling Primary School. Etymology Historically a part of Lancashire, its name originates from the Anglo-Saxon roots for "the homestead of Maella" (or Malla). Lying close to Liverpool, the area was settled by Maella's family in the 6th century. ''Melling'' may also be derived from the Common Brittonic, Brittonic ''mę:l'' meaning "bald, bare". The village was recorded in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086 as ''Melinge''. History A 'headle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melling, New Zealand
Melling is a suburb of Lower Hutt, to the north of Wellington in the North Island of New Zealand. It is on the west bank of the Hutt River, on State Highway 2, the Wellington-Hutt main road, and directly across the river from the centre of Lower Hutt. It is also the name of the three-lane bridge connecting the Hutt City central business district with State Highway 2, a route subject to extensive congestion at peak times. From the Melling Bridge it is possible to drive straight ahead into the hill suburbs of Harbour View and Tirohanga. Improved interchanges are planned for the Melling and Kennedy-Good bridges. History Melling was named after William Melling, a former Lancashire mentor of Richard Seddon in the foundry where he worked prior to leaving for New Zealand. Seddon and Melling remained in touch, with gifts of New Zealand lamb being sent to Melling at his home in St Helens at Christmas time. The name came about after then-Premier Seddon revisited England and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melling Railway Station
Melling railway station is the terminal station on the single track Melling Line in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. The single platform station serves the suburb of Melling. The station is served by Metlink's electric multiple unit trains. The Melling Line is expected to close for up to eighteen months from early 2025 to enable the RiverLink flood protection project to proceed. A new Melling station is to be built 250m south of the existing station, which will be preserved as a heritage building. History The station used to be on the Hutt Valley Line section of the Wairarapa Line until 1 March 1954, when the Melling-Belmont section of the line on the western side of the Hutt Valley was closed and the through line to Upper Hutt and the Wairarapa rerouted through the centre of the valley. The truncated line to Melling was then electrified. The new station erected at the same time was about 100m closer to Wellington to avoid a level crossing at the Melling Link Road over the Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melling Racing
Melling Racing was a Championship-winning NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Winston Cup Series race team owned by Harry Melling (NASCAR), Harry Melling and his son Mark Melling. Harry Melling ran the team from its inception in 1982, to mid-1999. When Harry died after a heart attack in mid-1999, his son Mark then took over Melling Racing until the team closed in 2003. The team was most notable for fielding cars for Bill Elliott in the 1980s, where he won the 1985 Southern 500 at Darlington to claim the first ever Winston Million bonus, claiming the fastest qualifying lap in NASCAR history at Talladega Superspeedway with a lap of 212.809 mph in 1987, and winning the 1988 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, 1988 Winston Cup championship. Melling won 34 career NASCAR Winston Cup races, all of them with Bill Elliott. History Car Nos. 9 and 92 History Bill Elliott and success (1982–1991) In 1982 the team became Melling Racing after Harry Melling bought the team from George Elliott on Decemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melling (surname)
Melling is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Al Melling, British automobile designer * Antoine Ignace Melling (1763–1831), Ottoman painter * Gerald Melling, New Zealand architect and writer * Harry Melling (NASCAR) (1945–1999), American businessman * Chris Melling, World class pool player * Harry Melling (actor) Harry Edward Melling (born 17 March 1989) is an English actor known for playing Dudley Dursley in the ''Harry Potter'' films (2001–2010) and Harry Beltik in ''The Queen's Gambit'' (2020). Early life Harry Edward Melling was born on 17 Mar ..., (born 1989), English actor * O.R. Melling, pen-name of G.V. Whelan, Canadian writer Fictional characters: * Victor Melling, character in the film '' Miss Congeniality'' {{surname, Melling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GWR Hawthorn Class
The Great Western Railway Hawthorn Class were broad gauge steam locomotives for passenger train work. This class was introduced into service in 1865, a development of the Victoria Class. Twenty locomotives were ordered from Slaughter, Grüning and Company and given the names of famous engineers. The remaining six were built by the railway itself at Swindon and given names previously carried by the Firefly Class locomotives that they replaced. Withdrawals started in March 1876 but the following year ten were rebuilt as locomotives; the last survived until the end of the broad gauge on 21 May 1892. Tender locomotives * ''Acheron'' (1866 - 1887) :This locomotive was built by the Great Western Railway at Swindon. The name ''Acheron'' comes from a Greek river and had previously been carried by a Fire Fly Class locomotive. * ''Beyer'' (1865 - 1877) :Built by Slaughter, Grüning and Company. It was named after Charles Beyer, a founder partner in the Beyer, Peacock and Company loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Biggs
Margaret Biggs (born 1929, Orpington, Kent) is a writer of girls' school stories. She is best known for her Melling School series of books, first published by Blackie in the 1950s. The series is set at a weekly boarding school and is unusual in showing boarding school and home life side by side. The interaction between girls and boys is also atypical of the genre at that time. The Melling series was republished by Girls Gone By Publishers in the 2000s and the reprints, whilst retaining the original text and artwork, have new introductions by Margaret Biggs, who is "taking great pleasure in the republication of her books". Margaret Biggs wrote two new volumes in the series fifty years later, ''Kate at Melling'', set twelve years after the earlier books, and ''Changes at Melling'', which were published by Girls Gone By Publishers in 2008 and 2009 respectively. Biography Margaret Biggs moved to Hertfordshire in 1935 where she was educated at Queen Elizabeth's School for Girls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
