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Ada Smith (gymnast)
Ada Smith (24 June 1903 – 8 August 1994) was a British Artistic gymnastics, gymnast. She won a bronze medal in the Gymnastics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Women's team, women's team event at the 1928 Summer Olympics. References External links * * * 1903 births 1994 deaths British female artistic gymnasts English female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Great Britain Gymnasts at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Leigh, Greater Manchester 20th-century English sportswomen {{UK-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh, Greater Manchester
Leigh is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on low-lying land northwest of Chat Moss. Within the boundaries of the Historic counties of England, historic county of Lancashire, Leigh was originally the centre of a large ecclesiastical parish covering six vills or townships. When the three townships of Pennington, Greater Manchester, Pennington, Westleigh, Greater Manchester, Westleigh and Bedford, Greater Manchester, Bedford merged in 1875, forming the Leigh Local Board District, Leigh became the official name for the town, although it had been applied to the area of Pennington and Westleigh around the parish church for many centuries. The town became an Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban district in 1894 when part of Atherton was added. In 1899 Leigh became a municipal borough. The first town hall was built on King Street and replaced by the present building in 1907. Originally an agricultural area (noted for dairy farming), domestic spinning and weaving led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
