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Quayle was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire and went to school at Brighton College in 1950. He returned to the school to be a governor in the 1990s. [3]Quayle worked in the Marley Tile company in the 1960s and together with his brother-in-law Richard Block started the B&Q retail chain in 1969 in Southampton.
B&Q was founded in March 1969 in Southampton, England, by Richard Block and David Quayle, following the purchase and fitting out of a former furniture warehouse in the Southampton suburb of Portswood. [7]
The Ballast Board took over the running of the port from the Belfast Corporation. The Ballast Office was established in premises on the site of the present Customs House. Although already well established by this stage, the port remained disadvantaged by the natural restrictions of shallow water, bends in the channel approach and inadequate quays.
Woolworth also operated shops in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and the West Indies. [38] [32] On 22 May 1958, the 1000th branch (known as "Portslade" to distinguish it from the existing Hove branch) opened in Boundary Road, Hove. The peak of 1,141 branches was reached in the late 1960s.
Trinidad and Tobago: Acting prime minister Colm Imbert (representing Prime Minister Keith Rowley, who was traveling outside of the country at the time) said in Parliament that the Government and Trinidad & Tobago's people joined the rest of the world in mourning the death of Her Royal Majesty. He also extended sincerest condolences to King ...