He did not take the Eleven plus exam and went to Worsbrough Dale School ( now called the Elmhirst School ), leaving at 15 to become a coal miner at Woolley Colliery from 1953, where he became the pit delegate ten years later.

In 1953, at the age of 15, he left school and went to work at the ( now closed ) Woolley Colliery which at that time employed 3, 000 miners.

Woolley went on to say: " It would cost as much as a major war just to put a man on the moon.

A few years earlier that girl, Bernadette Woolley, left her home town of Bognor Regis after an argument with her mother, went to London, advertised her services in a sleazy shop in Notting Hill, and had her first sexual intercourse, at 17, with her first customer.

cc contributed a memorable saxophone solo to the Ultravox song " Hiroshima Mon Amour ", and Nigel Ross Scott went on to play bass with Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club and Re-Flex, a 1980s pop group.

* Leonard Woolley, Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and Its Surroundings, Oxford University Press, 1927

* Leonard Woolley, Ur excavations IV: The Early Periods, Oxford University Press, 1927

* Leonard Woolley, Ur Excavations V: The Ziggurat and Its Surroundings, Oxford University Press, 1927

* Leonard Woolley and M. E. L. Mallowan, Ur Excavations VII: The Old Babylonian Period, Oxford University Press, 1927

* Leonard Woolley, Ur Excavations VIII: The Kassite Period, Oxford University Press, 1927

* Leonard Woolley and M. E. L. Mallowan, Ur Excavations IX: The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods, Oxford University Press, 1927

* Woolley ’ s Ur Revisited, Richard L. Zettler, BAR 10: 05, September / October 1984.

Puabi ( Akkadian: " Word of my father "), also called Shubad due to a misinterpretation by Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, was an important person in the Sumerian city of Ur, during the First Dynasty of Ur ( ca.

British archaeologist Leonard Woolley discovered the tomb of Puabi, which was excavated by his team along with some 1800 other graves at the " Royal Cemetery of Ur " between 1922 and 1934.

The amount of grave goods that Woolley uncovered in Puabi's tomb was staggering: a magnificent, heavy, golden headdress made of golden leaves, rings, and plates ; a superb lyre ( see Lyres of Ur ), complete with the golden and lapis-lazuli encrusted bearded bulls head ; a profusion of gold tableware ; golden, carnelian, and lapis lazuli cylindrical beads for extravagant necklaces and belts ; a chariot adorned with lioness ' heads in silver, and an abundance of silver, lapis lazuli, and golden rings and bracelets.

9: 4 ; 11: 1-7 ) — the same bank where Ur, identified by Leonard Woolley in 1927 as Ur of the Chaldees, is located.

Others such as The Bayeux Tapestry by Eric Maclagan ( 1943 ), Ur: The First Phases by Leonard Woolley ( 1946 ) or Russian Icons ( 1947 ) by David Talbot Rice were distillations by experts of their own pioneering works.

The Royal Game of Ur, also known as the Game of Twenty Squares, refers to two game boards found in the Royal Tombs of Ur in Iraq by Sir Leonard Woolley in the 1920s.

In 1929, Leonard Woolley discovered pieces of four harps while excavating in the ruins of the ancient city of Ur located in what was Ancient Mesopotamia and is contemporary Iraq.

Sir Charles Leonard Woolley unearthed more tablets at Ur contained in the " Ur excavations texts " from 1928.

* Woolley, C. Leonard and Moorey, P. R. S., Ur of the Chaldees: Revised and Updated Edition of Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavations at Ur, Cornell University Press ( 1982 ).

* Excavations at Ur by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania led by Leonard Woolley begin.

Furthermore, burial beneath the living quarters of a house was a custom noted at Ur by Woolley.

File: Raminathicket2. jpg | An example of elaborate Sumerian sculpture: the " Ram in a Thicket ", excavated in the royal cemetery of Ur by Leonard Woolley and dated to about 2600-2400 BCE.

In the 20th century excavations were carried out at Carchemish, Turkey, between 1911 and 1914 and in 1920 by D. G. Hogarth and Leonard Woolley, the latter assisted by T. E. Lawrence.

* The American Presidency Project: State of the Union Messages " Established in 1999 as a collaboration between John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara ," currently ( January 2010 ), the APP " archives contain 87, 448 documents related to the study of the Presidency.

His Principal Private Secretary Bernard Woolley, played by Derek Fowlds, is usually caught between the two.

The city again grew in the 1910s when it became the southern terminus for the Bellingham & Skagit Railway's Interurban railroad line which would carry passengers as well as freight between Bellingham and Mount Vernon as well as Burlington and Sedro Woolley.

The reason for this is that the West-South Yorkshire boundary historically ran between the village and its main source of employment, Woolley Colliery.

Forensic scientist David Woolley believed the cause of the fire was from a discarded cigarette or match, which had dropped through gaps between the seating to a void below the stand where rubbish had built up.

The library underwent major refurbishments between 1990 and 2004, designed by architects Ancher Mortlock & Woolley.

The reason for this is that the West-South Yorkshire boundary historically ran between the village and its main source of employment, Woolley Colliery.

Woolley played 64 Test matches between 1909 and 1934, coincidentally both topping and tailing his international career with games against Australia at The Oval.

The AUB's claims to authority are based around the accounts of John Wickersham Woolley, Lorin Calvin Woolley and others, of a meeting in September 1886 between LDS Church President John Taylor, the Woolleys, and others.

Sir Leonard Woolley holding the famous excavated Sumer ian Queen's Lyre, ( 1922 )

Excavations from 1922 to 1934 were funded by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania and led by the archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley.

The site was extensively excavated in the 1920s by Sir Leonard Woolley by appointment of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania and the British Museum in the period of 1922 to 1934.

Though he was never considered for a Test place again with Hammond, Hendren, Woolley and later Eddie Paynter entrenched in the middle order, Tyldesley remained a prolific scorer for Lancashire right up to 1934, and in 1933 had the distinction of being granted a second benefit for his services to the county, though this only raised £ 802 as against £ 2458 for his 1924 benefit.

The Trophy was instituted in 1934 by Sir Walter Lawrence, a builder and cricket enthusiast from Hertfordshire, the first recipient being Frank Woolley.

In the 1950s Richard Woolley, Director of Mount Stromlo Observatory from 1939 – 1956 and Astronomer Royal from 1956 – 1971, suggested constructing a large telescope in Australia.

Spencer Jones's successor as Astronomer Royal was Richard Woolley, who on taking up the position in 1956 responded to a question from the press by saying " Space travel is utter bilge ".

Richard van der Riet Woolley FRS ( 24 April 1906 – 24 December 1986 ) was an English astronomer who became Astronomer Royal.

Woolley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1953 and won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1971.

Woolley is known for his initial disbelief in the practicalities of space flight, a notion he shared with Sir Harold Spencer Jones, his predecessor as Astronomer Royal.

In January 1940, Woolley resigned from the school and was commissioned into the Royal Army Chaplains ' Department.