A small road called the Hornby Road, named after the then Governor of Bombay ( Mumbai ) between 1771 AD and 1784 AD, also existed at the old Fort area.

Consequent to the demolitions, the Hornby road was widened into a broad avenue and on its western side commercial plots were developed to build new commercial buildings in Neo Classical and Gothic Revival designs.

Heading out of the village to the west the road runs up a small hill known locally as Cheesecake, which briefly follows the course of a minor Roman road, before passing through Hornby and into Great Smeaton.

* Lima ( models ), an Italian brand of model railways, now merged with Hornby Railways

In 1831, part of Hornby was used to found the Town of Campbell, and another part of Hornby was added in 1842 to the Town of Orange ( now in Schuyler County ).

Essayist and novelist Nick Hornby was educated at Maidenhead Grammar School ( now Desborough School ), as were children's television presenter and radio show host Toby Anstis, author and broadcaster John O ' Farrell, athlete Mark Richardson and well known " Dragon " Peter Jones.

From this starting point Bachmann has developed the range further and now produce a large range of models competing in particular with Hornby.

Hornby acquired Corgi in 2008 so consequently now manufacture Bassett-Lowke models.

With competition mainly from Bachmann Industries, and to a much lesser extent from minor and generally niche players such as the Danish model railway company Heljan, Dapol, Vi Trains and Peco, Hornby Railways now ( in 2008 ) produce a large range of highly detailed British steam and diesel locomotives, such as the BR 9F, LNER Class A4, SR Merchant Navy, Class 60, Class 50, Class 31 and Class 08.

Airfix fans had been concerned that it could be the end of the brand, but just like the name Hornby was once a tradename of Meccano, Airfix is now a successful tradename of Hornby.

Hornby now called his construction toy " Mechanics Made Easy " and after receiving a positive endorsement from professor Henry Selby Hele-Shaw, then Head of the Engineering Department at Liverpool University, Hornby managed to secure contracts with outside manufacturers to supply the parts for his construction sets.

It had previously worked at the KP Hornby works, where it had displaced ex-NZR 2-4-0T steam locomotive D 140 ( now operating at Ferrymead ).

Hornby is the location where Kempthorne Prosser Limited set up their large chemical fertiliser works in 1922 that are now operated by Ravensdown Fertiliser.

William Hornby, Governor of Bombay, in 1775, weighs 36 carats g, and is now, I believe, the property of the Shah of Persia.

* In 2010, Ben Folds and Nick Hornby named their collaborative album Lonely Avenue which included the song Doc Pomus.

Dinky Toys were die-cast miniature vehicles produced by Meccano Ltd – makers of Hornby Railways, named after founder Frank Hornby.

History even records an instance in 1375 when an English Carmelite named Nicholas Hornby engaged in a public debate with a Dominican friar in which Hornby ridiculed Dominican claims to have received their habit from the Blessed Virgin — this was a claim common to several different orders in the Middle Ages.

Used by the timber trade, the dock was named after Thomas Dyson Hornby, chairman of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board between 1876 and 1889.

Hornby was apparently named by Frederick William Delamain, who came to Christchurch from England in 1852.

Hornby contains a large retail mall named ' The Hub Hornby ', which is the westernmost within the Christchurch urban area.

The species is named after Admiral Sir Phipps Hornby.

* Dyke – A hamlet south of Hornby village, located on County Road 42 and Cutler Creek.

* Hornby – The hamlet of Hornby is located on County Road 41 near the center of the town.

In September 1907, Hornby registered the Meccano trade mark, and in May 1908, he formed Meccano Ltd. To keep pace with demand, a new Meccano factory was built in Binns Road, Liverpool in 1914, which became Meccano Ltd's headquarters for the next 60 years.

* Frank Hornby, of Hornby Railways, Dinky Toy and Meccano fame lived in Maghull, first at The Hollies, Station Road, and later at the much larger " Quarry Brook ".

Not to be mistaken as the " Four Corners " of Hornby at Trafalgar Road and Steeles Avenue.

The Museum of Science and Industry, as it was then called, began in Christchurch in the early 1960s when a group of like-minded individuals banded together to set up a pilot project at Garvins Road in Hornby.

A final path comes from the north east from the Hornby Road in the direction to White Hill.

In 1793, after the construction of the Hornby Vellard, the Bellasis Road was built to join Mazagaon and Malabar Hill.

A pilot project was set in Garvins Road, Hornby: their original proposed site was at Prebbleton, south-west of Christchurch.

* D. Brock Hornby ( born 1944 ), a United States federal judge

Judge Wisdom's former law clerks include U. S. Senator Lamar Alexander ; Judge William H. Pryor, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ; Judge Martin Leach-Cross Feldman of the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ; Judge D. Brock Hornby of the United States District Court for the District of Maine ; U. S. Bankruptcy Judge Jerry Brown of the Eastern District of Louisiana ; U. S. Magistrate Judge Viktor V. Pohorelsky of the Eastern District of New York ; Justice Nora M. Manella of the California Court of Appeal ; Professor Philip Frickey of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law ; Professor Martha Field of Harvard Law School ; Ricki Tigert Helfer, former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ; Jack Weiss, Chancellor of Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center ; Barry Sullivan, former dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law ; and Gail B. Agrawal, dean of the University of Iowa College of Law.

The screenplay was written by novelist Nick Hornby and screenwriter D. V.

West reads extracts from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ; Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence ; High Fidelity by Nick Hornby ; The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton ; Life Class by Pat Barker ; The Moment You Were Gone by Nicci Gerrard ; and Something Childish But Very Natural by Katherine Mansfield.

Australia made a mere 63 runs in its first innings, and England, led by A. N. Hornby, took a 38-run lead with a total of 101.

* 2008 – Clive Hornby, English actor ( b. 1944 )

Hornby Railways produce live steam locomotives in 00, based on designs first arrived at by an amateur modeller.

Hornby, who became a rival of Grace in future years ; and the Honourable George Harris, the future Lord Harris, who became a very close friend and a most useful ally.

In July 1884, Grace's rival A. N. Hornby stopped play in a Lancashire v Gloucestershire match at Old Trafford so that E. M. and W. G.

About a Boy is a 1998 novel by British writer Nick Hornby.

* Nick Hornby, writer.

The town was formed in 1831 from the Town of Hornby.

Hornby is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States.

The name is from John Hornby, a land owner of the Pulteney Tract.

The Town of Hornby is located on the eastern border of the county, north of Corning, NY.

Dry Run is a small stream running through the town past Hornby village, and Post Creek runs through the southeast part of the town.

Some of the more significant cases included St Donat's Castle, bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1925 and then decorated with numerous medieval buildings removed from their original sites around Britain, and the case of Hornby, where many parts of the castle were sold off and sent to buyers in the United States.

In 1938, the Meccano Company launched a new range of OO models under the trade name of Hornby Dublo, OO gauge has remained the UK's most popular scale / gauge ever since.

Ready-to-run in the UK is dominated by Hornby Railways and Bachmann Branchline.