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The Bishop, formal designation Ordnance QF 25-pdr on Carrier Valentine 25-pdr Mk 1, was a British self-propelled gun vehicle based on the Valentine tank and armed with the QF 25-pounder gun-howitzer, which could fire an 87.6 mm (3.45 in) 11.5 kg (25 lb) HE shell or an armour-piercing shell. A result of a rushed attempt to create a self ...
The Bishop Arts District is a shopping and entertainment district in north Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas (), near the intersection of N. Bishop Ave and Davis Street.About two miles southwest of Downtown Dallas, the Bishop Arts District is home to a variety of independent boutiques, restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and art galleries.
Oak Cliff has turn-of-the-20th century and mid-20th century housing, many parks, and is near the central business district of downtown Dallas. The boundaries of Oak Cliff are roughly Interstate 30 on the north, Loop 12 on the west, Interstate 35E on the east, the Trinity River on the northeast and Interstate 20 on the south. There are no ...
Phase 2 of the Dallas Streetcar line runs south from the line's original southern terminus at Methodist Dallas Medical Center (Beckley stop), to the Bishop Arts District in Oak Cliff. [ 1 ] [ 17 ] On April 28, 2015, the DART board of directors approved a construction contract for the Bishop Arts extension. [ 18 ]
The Texas Theatre is a movie theater and Dallas landmark located in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas.It gained historical significance on November 22, 1963, as the location of Lee Harvey Oswald's arrest over the suspicion he was the killer of Dallas Police Officer J. D. Tippit and President John F. Kennedy.
El Paso Pyramus and Thisbe: 1938–1939 Wichita Falls The Happy Journey: 1939–1940 San Marcos Sparkin' 1940–1941 Waco Beauty And The Jacobin: 1941–1942 Waco The Happy Journey: 1942–1943 Abilene John Doe: 1943–1944 Dallas Sunset Road Into The Sun: 1944–1945 Fort Davis On Vengeance Height: 1945–1946 Abilene Our Town - Act 2: 1946 ...
A British self-propelled gun armed with the Ordnance QF 25-pounder in design from 1941 was given the service name "Bishop" as its appearance was said to resemble a bishop's mitre. A replacement, the US 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 was called "Priest" by the British, as part of its superstructure was said to resemble a priest's pulpit.
The Vault is located at 320 E. Jefferson Blvd., Room 314, Dallas, Texas, 75203. The Hidden City: Oak Cliff, Texas, by Bill Minutaglio and Holly Williams (Dallas: Elmwood Press and The Old Oak Cliff Conservation League, 1990), focuses on the earlier history of Oak Cliff and mentions Wynnewood only in passing.