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Plaistow was officially established as a town in 1749 after the 1739 resolution of a long-running boundary dispute between the Province of Massachusetts Bay and the Province of New Hampshire. [3] It is the only town outside the United Kingdom with the name Plaistow. In 1776 the western part of Plaistow became a separate town, Atkinson.
Robert Allen Coombes MM (6 January 1882 – 7 May 1949) was an Englishman whose murder of his mother in 1895 at the age of 13 caused a media sensation, dubbed the Plaistow Horror. Contemporary descriptions suggest Robert had no moral compass, and was involved in many financial tricks, before turning to murder.
Jenkins' Grumpy's Toy X 1975 Chevrolet Vega Pro Stock Car. William Tyler Jenkins (December 22, 1930 – March 29, 2012), nicknamed "Grumpy" or "The Grump", was an engine builder and drag racer. [1] Between 1965 and 1975, he won a total of thirteen NHRA events. [2] [clarification needed] Most of these wins were won with a four-speed manual ...
Grumpy's Toys: The Authorized History of Grumpy Jenkins' Cars is an authorized biography of drag racing legend Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins, with Jenkins himself writing the book's foreword. [ 1 ] The book was written by author Doug Boyce, who has also written the book Junior Stock: Drag Racing the Family Sedan .
Grumpy means unhappy, dissatisfied or irritable. It may refer to: Grumpy, one of the Seven Dwarfs in some adaptations of the fairy tale Snow White; Grumpy, a silent drama; Grumpy, a remake of the 1923 film; Grumpy, a nickname of the drag racer Bill Jenkins; Grumpy Cat, (2012-2019), American Internet celebrity cat
Plaistow, Derbyshire, in the List of places in Derbyshire; Plaistow, Newham, east London Plaistow (UK Parliament constituency), a parliamentary constituency from 1918 to 1950 within what has since become Newham; Plaistow (Newham ward), an electoral ward in Newham from 1964 until 2002; Plaistow North (ward), an electoral ward in Newham created ...
New Hampshire Route 125 is a 51.994-mile-long (83.676 km) north–south state highway in Rockingham, Strafford and Carroll counties in southeastern New Hampshire.The southern terminus is in Plaistow at the Massachusetts state line, where the road continues south into Haverhill as Massachusetts Route 125.
The Old Man of the Mountain, also called the Great Stone Face and the Profile, [1] [2] was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States, that appeared to be the jagged profile of a human face when viewed from the north.