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Gamages was an extremely successful and profitable store. In 1968 a second store was opened in the Liberty Shopping Centre in Romford, Essex. This had a relatively short life as the whole company was taken over by Jeffrey Sterling's Sterling Guarantee Trust in 1970 [7] [8] and the Romford site was sold off to British Home Stores in 1971. [9]
Hamleys of London Limited, trading as Hamleys, is a British multinational toy retailer, owned by Reliance Retail.Listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest toy store, it was founded by William Hamley as "Noah's Ark" in High Holborn, London, in 1760.
Holborn Library is a public library in Theobalds Road, Holborn, in the London Borough of Camden. The library is operated by the Camden London Borough Council and also houses the Local Studies and Archives Centre for the borough. [1] The Twentieth Century Society describe it as "a milestone in the history of the modern public library". [2]
Bartlett's Buildings, once known as Bartlett's Court, was the name of a street, off Holborn Circus in the City of London, known for the number of lawyers who had offices there. It was a cul-de-sac but an alley ran from the west side to Fetter Lane that was known as Bartlett's Passage. It was destroyed in 1941 during a Second World War air raid.
Subsequently, the area diversified and become recognisable as the modern street. A plaque stands at number 120 commemorating Thomas Earnshaw's invention of the Marine chronometer, which facilitated long-distance travel. At the corner of Hatton Garden was the old family department store of Gamages. Until 1992, the London Weather Centre was ...
A shop named "The Old Curiosity Shop" can be found at 13–14 Portsmouth Street, Holborn, London, WC2A 2ES, and is now owned by the London School of Economics. [13] The building dates back to the sixteenth century (1567) [ 14 ] in an area known as Clare Market , but the shop name was added after the novel was released, as it was thought to be ...
Holborn Town Hall, built in 1894, still exists, on High Holborn, and still has the coat of arms in the façade. [2] The entrance gate piers to the church of St Giles-in-the-Fields commemorate the Borough when it was amalgamated in 1965, and bear an inscription to this effect, although the arch that bore the borough's arms has since been removed.
Wright's Biscuits was established in 1790 at Holborn in South Shields to produce ship's biscuits. After a fire in 1898, completely new buildings were created at Tyne Dock. In 1933, Willie Webster became a director of the company with Frederick Cross, and the business name changed from L Wright & Son to Wright's Biscuits Ltd. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It ...