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Meadowbank Manufacturing Company Workshops 1922
Meadowbank can refer to: Australia * Meadowbank, New South Wales Canada * Meadowbank, Prince Edward Island, a community in Prince Edward Island * Meadowbank Aerodrome, Nunavut * Meadowbank Gold Mine, Nunavut England * Meadowbank, Cheshire, a location in North West England New Zealand * Meadowbank, New Zealand, a suburb of Auckland Scotland * Meadowbank, Edinburgh ** Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh ** Old Meadowbank, a now-demolished stadium in Edinburgh ** New Meadowbank New Meadowbank was an athletics and football ground in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was the home ground of Leith Athletic during the 1946–47 season. The site was later used to build the modern Meadowbank Stadium. History The ground was opened i ..., a now-demolished stadium in Edinburgh ** Meadowbank Thistle F.C., a Scottish football club that existed from 1974 to 1995 {{dab, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meadowbank, New South Wales
Meadowbank is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Meadowbank is located 15 kilometres north west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Ryde and part of the Northern Sydney region. Meadowbank sits in a valley on the northern bank of the Parramatta River. History Aboriginal culture The territory from Sydney Cove to Parramatta, on the northern side of the Parramatta River, was thought to be that of the Wallumattagal, and had the aboriginal name Wallumetta, the territory of the Wallumede people. Aboriginal people in the Sydney district were clans of larger groups sharing a common language. Three language groups have been identified in the Sydney Region – the Kuringgai (or Guringai), the Dharug (or Dharruk / Dharuk / Darug), and the Dharawal (or Tharawal). The Wallumedegal are thought to have been within the Dharug speaking area. European settlement Land originally granted to Surgeon William Balmain in 1794, in the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meadowbank, Prince Edward Island
Meadowbank, previously Meadow Bank, is a former rural municipality in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island within Queens County. History The Municipality of Meadow Bank was originally incorporated on December 31, 1974. It incorporated as a rural municipality on January 1, 2018. On September 1, 2020, the Rural Municipality of Meadowbank amalgamated with the rural municipalities of Afton, Bonshaw, New Haven-Riverdale, and West River. The amalgamated municipality was named the Rural Municipality of West River. Geography The locality of Meadow Bank is within Meadowbank. See also *List of communities in Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island is the least populous province in Canada with 154,331 residents as of the 2021 census and is the smallest in land area at . Prince Edward Island's 63 municipalities cover of the province's land mass and were home to of ... References Communities in Queens County, Prince Edward Island Former rural municip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meadowbank Aerodrome
Meadowbank Aerodrome is an aerodrome located northeast of Meadowbank Gold Mine, Nunavut Nunavut ( , ; iu, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ , ; ) is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the ''Nunavut Act'' ..., Canada. Airlines and destinations References Registered aerodromes in the Kivalliq Region {{Nunavut-airport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meadowbank Gold Mine
The Meadowbank Gold Mine is an open pit gold mine operated by Agnico-Eagle Mines in the Kivalliq district of Nunavut, Canada approximately 300 km west of Hudson Bay. Meadowbank was Agnico Eagle’s first Low Arctic mine. Discovery Discoveries of gold-containing Archean greenstone in the Baker Lake region were made in the 1980s. Asamera Minerals and Complex set out as partners in the project. The Third Portage deposit was discovered in 1987; this was followed by the discovery of the Goose Island deposit, and the North Portage deposit. Cumberland completed their acquisition of Complex's share in the discovery in 1997 taking sole ownership of the project. Since then three further discoveries have been made including the Vault deposit (October 2000), the PDF deposit (October 2002) and the Cannu zone (September 2005). The entire area has probable gold reserves of 3.5 million ounces (29.3 million tonnes of ore at 3.7 grams per tonne) and is open on strike and at depth. Geology T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North West England
North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of England, administrative counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of 7,052,000 in 2011. It is the Countries of the United Kingdom by population, third-most-populated region in the United Kingdom, after the South East England, South East and Greater London. The largest settlements are Manchester and Liverpool. Subdivisions The official Regions of England, region consists of the following Subdivisions of England, subdivisions: After abolition of the Greater Manchester and Merseyside County Councils in 1986, power was transferred to the metropolitan boroughs, making them equivalent to unitary authorities. In April 2011, Greater Manchester gained a top-tier administrative body in the form of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, which means the 10 Greater Manchester boroughs are once again second-ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meadowbank, New Zealand
Meadowbank is a suburb of Auckland city, situated in the North Island of New Zealand. Meadowbank is governed under the local governance of the Auckland Council. It has one shopping centre: Meadowbank Shopping Centre, on the corner of Gerard Way and St John's Road. Purewa Cemetery, one of central Auckland's largest cemeteries, is situated in Meadowbank and can be accessed from St John's Road. History In 1930, an extension of the Remuera electric tramway was opened, servicing Meadowbank. Demographics Meadowbank covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Meadowbank had a population of 5,328 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 279 people (5.5%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 633 people (13.5%) since the 2006 census. There were 1,947 households, comprising 2,499 males and 2,829 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.88 males per female, with 1,188 people (22.3%) aged under 15 years, 840 (15.8%) aged 15 to 29, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meadowbank, Edinburgh
Meadowbank is a suburb of Edinburgh in Scotland. It is best known for Meadowbank Stadium, a multi-purpose sports facility that opened as an international sports stadium in 1970. The stadium closed in 2017 and was redeveloped as a local sports and athletics facility that was officially opened on 4 November 2022. History The area developed extensively during the Victorian era as Edinburgh expanded eastwards. Holyrood Park lies to the south of Meadowbank. Meadowbank lodge is a Category C listed lodge, built in 1858, that borders the park and Meadowbank. Meadowbank Parish Church is named for the Meadowbank area although is located in Abbeyhill. The church was originally called Hollyrood Abbey Church. It is Category B listed and was built in 1899. Meadowbank retail park lies on the western edge of Meadowbank. The retail park was built in the early 1990s and occupies the former site of a foundry on London Road and a former seven storey Malt house. Geography Meadowbank lies to the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meadowbank Stadium
Meadowbank Stadium (officially the Meadowbank Sports Centre) is a multi-purpose sports facility located in the Meadowbank area of Edinburgh, Scotland. Built on the site of the earlier New Meadowbank and Old Meadowbank sports venues, it was originally built to host the 1970 Commonwealth Games. It also hosted the Games in 1986, becoming the first venue to host the Games twice. It is the current home of side F.C. Edinburgh. The stadium has also regularly hosted football. It was the home ground of Scottish Football League team Meadowbank Thistle between 1974 and 1995. From 1996, it hosted senior non-league football as the home ground of Edinburgh City. League football returned to Meadowbank in 2016 following City's promotion to the Scottish Professional Football League. The Meadowbank complex also hosted Leith Athletic, which played on the Meadowbank 3G artificial pitch adjacent to the main stadium since 2013. In the early months of 2019 the sports centre was demolished an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Meadowbank
Old Meadowbank was a multi-purpose sports facility located in the Meadowbank area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was mainly used as a football stadium by Leith Athletic between the 1930s and 1950s and as a motorcycle speedway track. The stadium was demolished in the late 1960s and provided part of the site for Meadowbank Sports Centre, which was used for the Commonwealth Games in 1970 and 1986. Uses Football Leith Athletic played at Old Meadowbank from the 1930s until their demise in 1955. In the early 1950s it was the location of a football match played under temporary floodlights against an invitation XI including the Edinburgh born Jimmy Logie, then playing for Arsenal. This was prior to the two senior clubs in Edinburgh, Hearts and Hibernian, themselves installing permanent floodlights. Speedway Old Meadowbank was a motorcycle speedway track that ran from 1948 to 1954 and 1960 to 1967. The stadium was located between what is the new Meadowbank Stadium and the Meadowbank Velod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Meadowbank
New Meadowbank was an athletics and football ground in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was the home ground of Leith Athletic during the 1946–47 season. The site was later used to build the modern Meadowbank Stadium. History The ground was opened in 1934 by Edinburgh Corporation. It had no covered spectator facilities. Athletics New Meadowbank was used for athletics, and hosted international meetings. It hosted the first post-World War II athletics meet between England, Scotland and Ireland in 1946, and another meet in 1947. SATS It also hosted the annual Scottish Amateur Athletics championship from 1952 until 1966.Sandy Mullay (1996) ''The Edinburgh Encyclopedia'', Mainstream Pub, p26 Football Prior to |
