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Since Sainsbury's acquired Argos, more and more standalone stores have been moved into a nearby Sainsbury's store. On 25 September 2019, Sainsbury's announced that over 50 Argos stores would be closing or relocating in order to cut costs. Stores also began to feature digital computers as well as printed catalogues to save costs.
Argos head office on Avebury Boulevard in Milton Keynes; Argos was established in 1973 from what was the Green Shield Stamps company and shops, and since 2016 has been owned by Sainsbury's, formerly Home Retail Group. Milton Keynes is home to many national companies such as Santander UK operations.
Aylesbury Borough Council was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, merging with neighbouring districts to become Aylesbury Vale district on 1 April 1974. No successor parish was established for the town and it was therefore directly administered by Aylesbury Vale District Council. The civil parish of Aylesbury was re-established in ...
Fairford Leys is a mixed use development consisting of 1,900 homes, on the western edge of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England.It has a village square hosting a number of traditionally-fronted shops, award-winning hair salon, supermarket, three restaurants, a Post Office, a family-run nursery, an ecumenical church and a community centre. [4]
By the early 1920s Aylesbury had grown such that it was necessary to start building houses on the site of Southcourt (the other side of California from Aylesbury), and so California and the associated farmlands that surrounded it became part of Aylesbury town. Eventually the farmlands themselves were built on, though some of the railway ...
From Bridge Street, the two roads of High Street and Cambrian Road run in parallel towards Newport railway station. Joining the two roads is the covered Victorian Newport Arcade. At the western end of the arcade is the Cambrian Centre which is being redeveloped. [4] To the east of High Street is Newport Market, a Grade II-listed building.
The hamlet is also the location of Aylesbury's Police Station and Aylesbury Grammar School, as well as the aforementioned High School. Walton Street showing Walton lodge on the far left and the Bricklayers Arms, centre right. There are four pubs in the vicinity, The Aristocrat, The Bricklayers Arms, The Broad Leys and The Millwrights. There is ...
Haberdashers' Adams developed slowly, and did not expand beyond its original building, now known as Big School, until the turn of the last century, when Main School (also known as the S-Block) was built in the 1920s. Over the course of the next 90 years Adams' expanded rapidly, acquiring a number of buildings on Lower Bar in Newport for use as ...