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He was notable for the modern application of marketing methods, including the part exchange of customers' existing house, careful estate layouts and timber-framed production. [3] Following the flotation, growth was disappointing. During 1969, the company acquired Midland & General Developments, then controlled by one-time estate agent Eric ...
In 1936 the first Connells estate agency branch was opened in Luton, Bedfordshire. [4] Connells acquired Sequence estate agency in 2003', [5] increasing its estate agency network to around 500 branches. In the same year, Connells acquired estate agency Sharman Quinney. [6] In 2008 Connells Group sold its remaining 18% stake in Rightmove plc. [7]
In 1920, Hampton & Sons', Estate Agents & Auctioneers, moved to 20 St James's Square, London W.1. During the 1920s, the successful auction house arm was involved in the sale of, amongst other things, the Michelham Collection in 1926 (when the record auction price of 74,000 guineas was achieved for the painting 'Pinkie' by Sir Thomas Lawrence ...
Bransholme is an area and a housing estate on the north side of Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.The name Bransholme comes from an old Scandinavian word meaning Brand's water meadow (brand or brandt meant 'wild boar').
The Swinton Estate is a large privately owned estate in North Yorkshire, England. It comprises some 20,000 acres (8,100 ha) of countryside in the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty , extending 10 miles (16 km) west from the River Ure near Masham . [ 1 ]
Hailsham died at his home in Hailsham, East Sussex, (which he had bought in 1917 after taking silk), on 16 August 1950, aged 78. He was buried in the churchyard of All Saints', Herstmonceux. The title passed to his son Quintin. [13] [1] His estate was valued for probate at £225,032 18s. 2d (around £7m at 2018 prices). [1] [3]
Middleham (/ ˈ m ɪ d əl ə m / MID-əl-əm; [2] meaning "middle ham", i.e. "middle village") is a market town and civil parish [3] in the district and county of North Yorkshire, England. It lies in Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales, on the south side of the valley, upstream from the junction of the River Ure and River Cover.
Hailsham Railway station outlived the rest of the Cuckoo Line by three years, the section north of Hailsham closing to passenger traffic in 1965. The track was retained with a weekly freight service until April 1968, when a bridge at nearby hamlet Horsebridge was damaged by a road vehicle. With the whole line due for closure, the damaged ...