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John Boot (October 1815 – 30 May 1860) was an English chemist and retail businessperson who was the sole founder of Boots the Chemists. Originally working in agriculture, he was forced by ill health to change careers and set up a shop to sell medicinal herbal remedies at Goose Gate, Nottingham .
By 1926, John Boot had bought back the company and in 1927, renamed the Boots Pure Drug Company, it purchased a new 200-acre (81 ha) site at Beeston, outside of Nottingham, which became the Boots Factory Site. [3] Work began immediately and Owen Williams, an architect and engineer, was engaged to design a range of buildings on the site.
An advertisement for Boots from 1911. Boots was established in 1849, by John Boot. [7] After his father's death in 1860, Jesse Boot, aged 10, helped his mother run the family's herbal medicine shop in Nottingham, [8] which was incorporated as Boot and Co. Ltd in 1883, becoming Boots Pure Drug Company Ltd in 1888.
Boot offered his close friend and business associate John Harston, the opportunity of going into business with him, but Harston declined, feeling the venture was not worth investing in. Boot was a great benefactor to the City of Nottingham. In 1920, Boot purchased, and presented to the City of Nottingham, 36 acres of open land that lay along ...
Location of Rockingham County in New Hampshire. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
Nottingham is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 5,229 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] up from 4,785 at the 2010 census. It is the location of Pawtuckaway State Park .
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Boots D10 Building in Nottingham, built 1930–32 (Grade I listed in 1971) [3] Express Building, Manchester, built 1936–39, considered Williams finest architectural work (Grade II* listed in 1974) [4] Williams was born at 16 Caroline Terrace in Tottenham, London, England, on 20 March 1890. He was the son of Evan Owen Williams, a Welsh-born ...