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Topcliffe opened in September 1940 as a bomber station in RAF Bomber Command and was home to 77 and 102 Squadrons flying the Whitley heavy bomber.
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RAF Topcliffe was opened in 1940 as a bomber station under the control of RAF Bomber Command.
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Between 1943 and 1945 the station was used by No. 6 ( RCAF ) Group Bomber Command and was a sub-station of RAF Topcliffe.
Royal Air Force Station Topcliffe or RAF Topcliffe is a Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire, England.
The wartime control tower, with modifications, is still used, and the station is referred to as RAF Topcliffe by the RAF.
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It has satellite stations at RAF Topcliffe, RAF Church Fenton and RAF Dishforth.
Linton is responsible for three satellite stations ; RAF Church Fenton, RAF Topcliffe and RAF Dishforth.
In 1962 The Air Electronics School ( for Wireless Operators and Air Electronics Officers ) moved to RAF Topcliffe from RAF Hullavington in Wiltshire.
As of March 2012, RAF Topcliffe is the permanent base of one of the two Yorkshire Air Ambulances.
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When the blockade ended the Squadron returned to the United Kingdom, moving to RAF Topcliffe on 22 August 1949, operating in support of airborne forces, moving to RAF Abingdon in May 1953.
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No 61 Base was headquartered at Topcliffe and commanded the RAF establishments at Dalton, Dishforth and Wombleton.
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The mainly Catholic North supported her, and there was another popular rising known as the Rising of the North ; this began six miles ( 10 km ) away at Topcliffe and was led by Thomas Percy, the 7th Earl of Northumberland and Charles Neville, the 6th Earl of Westmorland.
He had leave in 1528 to come to London ; in 1530, while he was at Topcliffe, he received a message from the king ordering him to go to Cawood and arrest Wolsey.
After being arrested and tortured by Sir Richard Topcliffe, Southwell was tried and convicted of high treason for his links to the Holy See.
Having been interrogated and raped by Richard Topcliffe, the Queen's chief priest-hunter and torturer, she revealed Southwell's movements and he was immediately arrested.
He was first taken to Topcliffe's own house, adjoining the Gatehouse Prison, where Topcliffe subjected him to the torture of " the manacles ".
" He was immediately reproved by Topcliffe for insupportable pride in making the comparison, but he said in response that he considered himself " a worm of the earth.
Also in 1971, in the television drama Elizabeth R, Wilde played the efficient, merciless ' rackmaster ' Richard Topcliffe, who was charged with the torture of prisoners in the Tower of London.
Richard Topcliffe ( 14 November 1531 – 1604 ) was a landowner and Member of Parliament during the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
Topcliffe was the eldest son of Robert Topcliffe of Somerby, Lincolnshire, and his wife, Margaret, daughter of Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh of Gainsborough.
Topcliffe was a fanatical persecutor of Catholics and the Catholic Church, and was involved in the interrogation and torture of many priests and laity, at a time when all Catholics were accused of actively seeking to overthrow the ruling Anglican establishment of England in order to return England to Catholicism.
In Topcliffe, North Yorkshire, only a few miles from the Neville estates, John Neville arrived, three days after receiving an official warning from the King to desist, and threatened to hang all the tenants if they did not tell him where Egremont was hiding.
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** Richard Topcliffe, English torturer and sadist ( b. 1531 )
Ben Jonson, who he co-wrote the play with Thomas Nashe, is arrested on the orders of Queen Elizabeth I of England's so-called interrogator, Richard Topcliffe.
Instead, the collective forces of the Percy and Neville families gathered at their Yorkshire strongholds of Topcliffe and Sand Hutton respectively, only a few miles apart.
Hereat Topcliffe seemed to make great acclamation, saying that he compared himself to Christ.
' ' Yes ,' said Topcliffe, ' you are Christ's fellow.
* Topcliffe: If he were racked, let me die for it.
* Topcliffe: I did but set him against a wall.
* Topcliffe: I would blow you all to dust if I could.
* Topcliffe: Ay, all.
Topcliffe entered the service of the Queen's secretary, William Cecil in the 1570s, and worked for Sir Francis Walsingham and the Privy Council.
As it starts to pursue a more constant southerly flow it is joined by the River Wiske before passing Skipton-on-Swale, Catton, Topcliffe and Asenby.
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On September 22, 1834, Alcott opened a school of about 30 students, mostly from wealthy families.
A revival by the Royal National Theatre opened at the Olivier Theatre on September 26, 1995.
Additional stations were opened recently and with the last one that opened on the 7th of September 2009, the subway reached total length of 18 kilometers with 14 stations.
On 23 September 2011, Bille August announced that he has opened his studio in Hangzhou, China and taken a position as Tianpeng Media's Art Director, aiming to produce Chinese films for Tianpeng Media over the next few years.
The first-ever official exhibition spotlighting Bardot's influence and legacy opened in Paris on 29 September 2009 – a day after her 75th birthday.
On September 29, their lead down to 2 games and their magic number at 5, the Rockies opened their final home series against Milwaukee.
Carson City was in the national news on September 2nd, 2011, when an employee of a family business in South Lake Tahoe opened fire at an IHOP restaurant on the south side of Carson City, killing four people and wounding several others before the shooter turned the gun on himself.
50 to Fairview Drive, was officially opened on September 24, 2009.
A Fujiko F Fujio museum opened in Kawasaki on September 3, 2011, featuring Doraemon as the star of the museum.
As " Ashes to Ashes " hit number one on the UK charts, Bowie opened a three-month run on Broadway on 24 September, starring in The Elephant Man.
In October 2001, Bowie opened The Concert for New York City, a charity event to benefit the victims of the September 11 attacks, with a minimalist performance of Simon & Garfunkel's " America ", followed by a full band performance of " Heroes ".
The Straw Hat Revue opened on 29 September 1939, and closed after ten weeks, but it was long enough for critics to take notice of Kaye's work in it.
In September 1996, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras opened free trade talks with Mexico.
The Göta Canal was officially opened on 26 September 1832 in an event commemorated by the painter Johan Christian Berger in his work The Opening of the Göta Canal on 26 September 1832.
The bridge was officially opened on September 14, 2009, enabling economic interests in northern Brazil to link by road to the port at Georgetown.
In September 1957 the new college opened its doors to seventeen students, all of whom enrolled as freshmen in a renovated elementary school building at Bailey's Crossroads.
The Stockton and Darlington Railway opened on 27 September 1825.
The school officially opened September 23, 1964, it is still currently active and it is housed at 8 W. 8th Street, the site of the original Whitney Museum of American Art.
It was opened on 18 September 2006.
The Millennium of Russia monument ( was opened on 8 September 1862 ) on a postage stamp dedicated to the 1140th anniversary of the Russia n statehood in 2002
On 15 September 1830, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was opened, the first inter-city railway in the world and was attended by Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington.
In September 2011 the UCB opened a third theatre in New York City's East Village, known as UCBeast.
Spacey's first season started in September 2004, and opened with the British premiere of the play Cloaca by Maria Goos, directed by Spacey, which opened to mixed reviews.
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