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The building which was the veterinary surgery of Alf Wight and Brian and Donald Sinclair, 23 Kirkgate, Thirsk. It is now The World of James Herriot museum. (2009 photo) In 1939, Sinclair bought a veterinary practice at 23 Kirkgate, Thirsk, Yorkshire. In July 1940, Sinclair began war service in the Royal Air Force, and hired Alf Wight to run the ...
James Alfred Wight OBE FRCVS (3 October 1916 – 23 February 1995), better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author.. Born in Sunderland, Wight graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College in 1939, returning to England to become a veterinary surgeon in Yorkshire, where he practised for almost 50 years.
23 Kirkgate, Thirsk, the former veterinary surgery of Sinclair, his brother Donald, and James "Alf" Wight (James Herriot) Sinclair was born at Harrogate on 27 September 1915. [ 1 ] His father, James, [ 2 ] was the son of a crofter who had moved from the Isle of Sanday in the late 19th century. [ 3 ]
Norton is a mixed practice veterinary surgeon, in North Yorkshire, where he lives with his wife, Anne and two sons, Jack and Archie. [16] [17] He has spent the majority of his working life in Thirsk, [18] working as, first, an assistant, then partner in the practice at which Alf Wight (better known under his pseudonym of James Herriot) had worked.
Morehead Township is a rural, non-functioning county subdivision established in 1868 in Guilford County, North Carolina, United States.. The population at the 2010 census was 195,218. The population at the 2010 census was 195,218.
Greensboro (/ ˈ ɡ r iː n z b ə r oʊ / ⓘ; [5] locally / ˈ ɡ r iː n z b ʌr ə /) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States.At the 2020 census, its population was 299,035; it was estimated to be 302,296 in 2023. [6]
The College Hill neighborhood is bounded: on the north by West Market Street; on the west by McIver and Tate streets; on the south by the Southern Railway tracks, and; on the east by Freeman Mill Road, Spring Street, West McGee Street and Greensboro College. The College Hill Historic District is a smaller area in the neighborhood.
The following is a list of neighborhoods, districts, and other places located in the city of Greensboro, North Carolina.The list is organized by broad geographical section within the city.