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B&Q Limited (short for Block & Quayle after the company's two founders) is a British multinational DIY and home improvement retailing company, with headquarters in Eastleigh, England. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kingfisher plc .
Wickes Group plc trading as Wickes is a home improvement retailer and garden centre, based in the United Kingdom with more than 230 stores throughout the country.Its main business is the sale of supplies and materials, for homeowners and the building trade. [2]
Focus DIY, Belper, Derbyshire (2005) Focus DIY, Rawtenstall, Rossendale (2012) Focus was a British do-it-yourself and home improvement retailer, founded in 1987.. The retailer grew by acquiring rival retailers such as Payless, Do It All and Great Mills; by its peak in 2002, it was the second-largest home improvement retailer in the United Kingdom with 178 stores and over 3,000 employees ...
Cheadle Hulme 'bend' derailment: 28 May 1964 3 killed Coppenhall Junction railway accident: 26 December 1962 18 killed, 34 injured Harrow and Wealdstone railway accident: 8 October 1952 112 killed, 340 injured – worst accident in England and London. Worst peacetime railway accident in the UK Weedon rail crash (1951) 21 September 1951
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.
The Army Cadet Force (ACF) is a cadet organisation based in the United Kingdom.It is a voluntary youth group sponsored by the Ministry of Defence (British Army).Local units of the ACF, called Detachments, are based in towns and villages across the UK and formed of those cadets and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers (CFAVs) parading together at that location.
Built-up area boundaries are defined and named by the ONS. (In ONS reports of the 2011 and 2021 censuses, many of these areas were called "built-up sub-areas" of larger urban areas ; as of October 2024 [update] , the ONS has not defined a new nomenclature for the urban areas or released any data for them.)
The BUT brand was created in 1972 by André Venturini in Le Havre, France.With his son Michel, he rapidly expanded his network by using franchising.In 1982, there were 140 BUT stores, and in 2015, 280.