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The Hatchery LLC is an American media production company, which was owned by American Greetings and Mandalay Entertainment and located in Burbank, California. Margaret Loesch and Bruce Stein formed Hatchery in 2003 with financing from Peter Guber and Paul Schaeffer of Mandalay Entertainment Group . [ 1 ]
The Buttercross in Ludlow, Shropshire, England, is a market hall dating from 1746. Such market halls, or crosses, may derive from the high crosses or free-standing stones of the Early Mediaeval period. In the Middle Ages they were often used as gathering points in the centres of communities, generally as venues for regular markets. Beneath the ...
Laurence of Ludlow was the son of Nicholas of Ludlow, a prominent Shropshire wool merchant. He amassed a fortune in the medieval English wool trade and established a career as a money lender through his loans to Edward I of England , and other members of the English nobility.
Sheet (or "The Sheet") is a small modern village in the parish of Ludford about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the town centre of Ludlow, Shropshire. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. [ 1 ] It was part of the Saxon hundred of Culvestan , which ended in the reign of Henry I , and thereafter Sheet belonged to Munslow hundred.
Mary Hannah Williams was born at Nantymoel, in the Ogmore Valley, South Wales, to parents James Williams and Mary A. Williams.Her father was a coal miner. She was married at age 17 to Tom Thomas, an American-born miner. [1]
A road network, principally Center and Church Streets, was laid out by that time, and a modest village center arose. In the early 19th century, a mill was established on the Chicopee River in the southern reaches of the town, around which Ludlow Village developed as its principal economic center. In 1893, the town meeting was moved to Ludlow ...
Ludlow Porch (October 11, 1934 – February 11, 2011), [1] born Bobby Crawford Hanson, was an American radio humorist popular in the Southern United States. He was the author of many humor books, including Fat White Guys Cookbook and Who Cares about Apathy .
The Feathers Hotel is a historic inn in Ludlow, Shropshire. Its imposing half-timbered frontage was constructed in 1619, over an earlier core, for a local lawyer, Rees Jones. [ 2 ] John Newman describes the hotel as a "prodigy" of Tudor architecture and it is noted for its Jacobean furnishings.