Before 1974, the records of the HBC were kept in the London office headquarters.

Before the 1974 season began, the Padres were on the verge of being sold to Joseph Danzansky, who was planning to move the franchise to Washington, D. C. by the beginning of the 1974 season.

Before 1974, Chemung County was governed by a board of supervisors.

Before 1974, that role had been filled by Famagusta which is now located in the Turkish controlled part of the island which is not recognised as a legal port by any country except Turkey.

Before 1974, NFL teams kicked off from the 40 ; starting in 1974, the NFL moved its kickoffs back to the 35, and twenty years later, the kickoff line was pushed back to the 30.

Before moving to Bankers Life Fieldhouse, the Pacers played their games at Market Square Arena from 1974 – 1999 and at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum ( currently known as the Pepsi Coliseum ) from 1967 – 1974.

Before retirement, in 1974, he starred in La Mary, a hit movie directed by Daniel Tinayre.

He was also the voice of Father Mouse in the 1974 Christmas special Twas the Night Before Christmas, and sang the song Give Your Heart a Try in that production.

Before 1974, Morphou was an almost entirely Greek Cypriot community.

Before 1974, St Ives Borough Council was the principal local authority for what now forms the civil parish of St Ives.

Before 1974 Ilkley was an urban district, a type of local government district.

In 1974, Diamond released the album Serenade, from which " Longfellow Serenade " and " I've Been This Way Before " were issued as singles.

Before the Local Government Act 1972 came into force in 1974 Wisbech was a municipal borough ; it is now a civil parish in the Fenland District.

Before entering politics, Morgan worked as an Industrial Development Officer for South Glamorgan County Council from 1974 to 1980.

* Where Have I Known You Before ( 1974, Polydor )

* 1974: Long Before Our Mothers Cried ( Strata-East Records )

Before the year 1924 it started at 6 and at 7 between 1924 and 1974.

Before 1974 all crimes and offences were prosecuted at the suit of ( after action taken by ) the Attorney General.

Before 1974, the land the airport sits on was largely owned by the United States Air Force, which operated an air force base there.

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Before this, the land on which the lake now sits has gone through several complex stages.

Before construction of the Panama Canal, a stagecoach line owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt's Accessory Transit Company connected the lake with the Pacific across the low hills of the narrow Isthmus of Rivas.

Before 1852, the Haarlemmermeer polder in which the airport lies was a large lake, in the shallow waters of which sudden violent storms could claim many ships.

Before this, Lake Huron was a low-lying depression through which flowed the now-buried Laurentian and Huronian Rivers ; the lake bed was criss-crossed by a large network of tributaries to these ancient waterways, with many of the old channels still evident on bathymetric maps.

Before reaching Harbor Beach, the winds turned to the northeast and the lake began to rise.

Before flooding the area, the villages were relocated uphill from the lake.

Before the harbor mouth was dredged and cleared in the late 19th century, the mouth of this inlet would often go dry at low tide, which led to its being called a lake.

Before Lake Arthur, first settled was a little village that was south and across the lake called Lakeside and also the area called Shell Beach.

Before it was dammed in the early 1900s and then incorporated into the Columbia Basin Project, Moses Lake was a smaller, salty, shallow lake.

Before the conversation goes any further, the plane suddenly hits a flock of birds and nose-dives into a lake, killing the pilot.

Before pesticide use began in the 1940s ( Refer to Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, chapter 4 ), the gnat was so abundant around the lake in the summer that large piles of dead gnats appeared beneath streetlights, looking like dirty snow.

Before the foundation of Melbourne, Docklands was a wetlands area consisting of a large salt lake and a giant swamp ( known as West Melbourne Swamp ) at the mouth of the Moonee Ponds Creek.

Before the lake was built by the British, in the year 1799 A. D., the estate where the lake is now located was leased on a yearly rent to Dr. Scott and after his death in 1816 A. D., the government took control of the estate in 1826 A. D., and leased it once again to Mr. Framaji Kavasji, then the vice-president of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Western India.

Before the reservoir ’ s construction, there was a hill in Enfield called Quabbin Hill and a lake in Greenwich called Quabbin Lake.

Before the arrival of Europeans, the current lake area contained two separate lakes that were the sites of Lenape villages.

Before Lake Kariba was filled, the existing vegetation was burned, creating a thick layer of fertile soil on land that would become the lake bed.

# Before the construction of the Loktak Hydro Electric Project, the phumdis floated during flooding by backflow from the Khordak River and discharge from other streams and nalas and settled down on lake bed during dry season when water was drawn out through the same river.

Before the 1992 eruption, a small crater lake occupied the bottom of Crater Peak's crater.

Before the French Revolution, what is now Enghien-les-Bains was a lake and a marshland under the jurisdiction of Montmorency.

* Before the Lake Washington Floating Bridge was built across Lake Washington in 1940, SR 900 was one of the major roads east from Seattle, taking US 10 and Primary State Highway 2 around the south side of the lake.

Before the construction of railways past the lake, it was an important transport route.

Before the regulation works of the 19th century, the lake extended in the south-east to the marshlands of the Hanság () which have been increasingly drained and claimed for agriculture from the 16th century onward.