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More than 6, 000 Greenwood residents were arrested and detained at three local facilities: Convention Hall, now known as the Brady Theater, the Fairgrounds ( then located about a mile northeast of Greenwood ), and McNulty Park ( a baseball stadium at Tenth Street and Elgin Avenue ).
Bacup is home to the long Elgin Street which held the record as the shortest street in the world until November 2006, when it was surpassed by Ebenezer Place, in the Scottish Highlands.
* Elgin Street ( Ottawa )
* Elgin Street, Hong Kong, a street in Central, Hong Kong
* Elgin Street, former name of Haiphong Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
The line was built by the Carpentersville, Elgin and Aurora Railway from a connection with the streetcar system in Elgin, Illinois and ran for four miles, terminating at the Illinois Iron and Bolt foundry on Main Street.
The Elgin Main Street Program provides a variety of incentives to building owners such as a discounted paint program, free dumpsters, and free advice on architectural design and restoration.
Elgin became a Texas Main Street city in 1990, and in 1999, 2000 and 2001 was selected as a National Main Street Community.
* Elgin Street
Elgin Street, Soho, Hong Kong
The area now consists of restaurants, bars, nightclubs, art galleries and antique stores of Staunton Street and Elgin Street.
Hong Kong taxi drivers usually regard " Soho " to mean either Staunton Street or Elgin Street.
The name Soho was first mentioned in a 1996 article in the South China Morning Post newspaper attributed to Elgin Street restaurant owner, Thomas Goetz, who came up with the acronym.
However, in 2000, Democratic Party member Kam Nai-wai wanted to see Soho formally renamed the " Elgin / Staunton Street Themed Dining Area ", and Kam and some long-term residents associated the name Soho with being a place of disrepute, with red light district associations.
The irony is Elgin Street was known in the 1860s as " Hung Mo Giu Gai ," or " Foreign Girls Street ," due to the vast number of European-staffed brothels.
For several years the Democratic Party fought an ongoing battle against the new bars and restaurants in the area, and also against formal adoption of the name " Soho ", preferring instead the descriptive " Staunton / Elgin Street Themed Dining Area " so as not to associate the area with alcohol consumption.
File: HK Central Elgin Street. JPG | Krispy Kreme
File: HK Central Soho Elgin Street Caramba OLIVE restaurant 2. JPG | Caramba Olive
File: HK SOHO Elgin Street SOHO Spice Rest a. jpg | Soho Spice

Elgin and one
In response to repeated Greek requests for return of the Elgin Marbles and similar requests to other museums around the world, in 2002, over 30 of the world's leading museums — including the British Museum, the Louvre, the Pergamon Museum in Berlin and the Metropolitan Museum in New York City — issued a joint statement declaring that " objects acquired in earlier times must be viewed in the light of different sensitivities and values reflective of that earlier era " and that " museums serve not just the citizens of one nation but the people of every nation ".
* The Elgin Hour ( one episode, 1955 ) — Vernon Dyall
Munro was born at Elgin, Moray, Scotland, the illegitimate son of Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar by Penelope Forbes, and educated at Shrewsbury School, where he was one of Benjamin Hall Kennedy's first pupils.
At this time the antiquarian world was much occupied with the vexed question of the merits of the Elgin marbles, and Flaxman was one of those whose evidence before the parliamentary commission had most weight in favour of the purchase which was ultimately effected in 1816.
The writer of the movie kept Ginuwine's real name " Elgin " as the name for one of the lead characters.
Tories and Reformists clashed over the planned visit of Lord Elgin, one man was killed and many sustained injuries.
In 1801 one of the caryatids was removed by Lord Elgin in order to decorate his Scottish mansion, and was later sold to the British Museum ( along with the pedimental and frieze sculpture taken from the Parthenon ).
In the United Kingdom, cathedrals generally only have one aisle on each side, with Chichester Cathedral and Elgin Cathedral being the only two exceptions.
After the battle, William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, one of the Prince's generals, was captured and taken to London and eventual execution, but he wrote to his friend from prison about his indebtedness to the shoemakers of Elgin: " Beside my personal debts mentioned in general and particular in the State, there is one for which I am liable in justice, if it is not paid, owing to poor people who gave their work for it by my orders.
In a recent study, Elgin was shown to be one of the most expensive towns in which to buy property in Scotland.
Four of the originals are held locally in Burghead Visitor Centre and Elgin Museum and one each in the Royal Museum, Edinburgh, and the British Museum, London.
The Daphnion was founded about the turn of the 6th century, Christianizing the site of the Sanctuary of Apollo Daphnaios that had been desecrated by the Goths in 395, and reusing the Ionic columns of the ancient temple of Apollo in its portico ; only one remains, the others having been removed to London by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin.
* Old Main ( the Elgin Area Historical Society and one classroom used daily by the Academy )
Among his ventures: a second car dealership, Elgin Ford, in downtown Toronto ; massive real estate holdings throughout Alberta and Ontario ; Fidelity Trust, one of Canada's largest trust companies ; Palm Dairies, one of the largest retailers of dairy products in Western Canada ; Canbra Foods, a canola manufacturer ; Magic Pantry, which sold prepared foods that did not require refrigeration ; Kretschmar Foods, which serviced restaurants ; Green Acre Farms, a chicken-processing company with plants in Texas and Mississippi ; and Gainers, an Edmonton-based beef-and pork-packing company.
Duane Elgin was described in April 2009 by the Ecologist Magazine as one of the ten leading visionaries with " big ideas for a better world ".
To limit the British to peninsular Nova Scotia, the French also began to fortify the Chignecto and its approaches ; they constructed Fort Beausejour and two satellite forts: one at present-day Port Elgin, New Brunswick ( Fort Gaspareaux ) and the other at present-day Saint John, New Brunswick ( Fort Menagoueche ).
Banff, Bathgate, Blairgowrie, Bo ' ness, Campbeltown, Carnoustie, Coatbridge, Craigmarloch, Crieff, Cumbernauld, Dalgety Bay, Dalkeith, Dingwall, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee ( two ), Dunfermline, Edinburgh ( two ), Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Fort William, Galloway, Govan ( Paisley Road West ), Grangemouth, Greenock, Haddington, Helensburgh, Inverness, Inverurie, Keith, Kilmarnock, Kirkcaldy, Kirkintilloch, Kirriemuir, Lanark, Linlithgow, Milngavie, Monifieth, Montrose, Oban, Perth ( two ; one on Victoria Street in the city centre and one on the Crieff Road ), Rosyth, St Andrews, Stranraer, and Wishaw.
He made his second and final appearance for the promotion exactly one month later, where he defeated Michael Elgin.
Two two toll plazas near O ' Hare and the one in Elgin each charge cash tolls of 80 cents ( as of January 1, 2005 ) and I-Pass tolls of 40 cents for a 2-axle passenger vehicle.
Connected to the modern wing, the Heritage Building contains the offices of the Mayor and members of Council ( the mayor's office overlooks Elgin Street ), as well as a number of offices and committee rooms ( including one committee room located in the former gymnasium of the Normal School ).
" ID, one could hear a very laid-back male voice ask "... what about Elgin?

Elgin and streets
In 1951, they founded their first bakery in Hamilton, Ontario in a small, rented backroom of a house on Wilson and Elgin streets.
Most prominent buildings are situated along Wellington, Sparks and Elgin streets.
From east to west, the prominent streets are Elgin Street, Metcalfe Street, O ' Connor Street, Bank Street, Kent Street and Bronson Avenue.
Recalls Scott, " Neither Wellington, nor the streets south of it, between Elgin and Bank, had been laid out.

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