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A Davenport desk, (sometimes originally known as a Devonport desk [1]) is a small desk originating in England with an inclined lifting desktop attached with hinges to the back of the body. Lifting the desktop accesses a large compartment with storage space for paper and other writing implements, and smaller spaces in the forms of small drawers ...
A white wooden drawer Filing card drawer A drawer ( / d r ɔːr / ⓘ DROR ) is a box -shaped container inside a piece of furniture that can be pulled out horizontally to access its contents. Drawers are built into numerous types of furniture, including cabinets , chests of drawers (bureaus), desks , and the like.
In 1837 Rhodes issued a small Derbyshire Tourist's Guide and Travelling Companion. All his books involved him in financial loss, but his Peak Scenery remains a standard work. [ 1 ] Apart from these ventures, he turned his attention to journalism, and for several years edited the Sheffield Independent .
Cravens Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited was a railway rolling stock builder in the Darnall district of Sheffield, England.Founded by brothers named Craven and known as Craven Brothers, later Cravens Limited, it remained a family business until John Brown & Company acquired a controlling shareholding in 1919.
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David Hawley, better known as Dave Hawley, was an English prominent guitarist who was part of the late 1950s and 1960s Sheffield rock music scene. [1] On his death, he was described as being "a leading light" and "an outstanding guitarist"; [1] the Sheffield Star called him a "Sheffield music legend". [2]
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The practice was established in 1947 by Frank Gollins (1910–1999), James Melvin (1912–2012) and Edmund Ward (1912–1998), and operated as Gollins Melvin Ward.In the 1950s it designed Castrol House, a tower on Marylebone Road in London, notable as one of the first uses of curtain walling on a building in the United Kingdom, and the central campus for the University of Sheffield.