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Argos was launched with thousands of staff, taking £1 million during a week in November. [10] Argos was purchased by BAT Industries in 1979 for £32 million. In 1980, Argos opened its Elizabeth Duke jewellery counter (named after a director's wife) and by 1982, was the United Kingdom's fourth-biggest jewellery retailer.
Chiswick grew as a village in Anglo-Saxon times from smaller settlements dating back to Mesolithic times in the prehistoric era. [1] Roman roads running east–west along the lines of the modern Chiswick High Road and Wellesley Road met some 500 metres north of Chiswick Mall; the High Road was for centuries the main road westwards from London, while goods were carried along the river Thames.
Chiswick High Road is the principal shopping and dining street of Chiswick, a district in the west of London. It was part of the main Roman road running west out of London, and remained the main road until the 1950s when the A4 was built across Chiswick.
An Argos catalogue page from 1976 shows toy houses, prams and so on all in different colours. Now they only sell them in pink. Now they only sell them in pink. Recently, a Lego advert from 1981 went viral on the internet because it showed a girl proudly clasping her latest Lego creation.
The land on which the Chiswick Business Park was built had been owned by the Rothschild family and planted as orchards in the 19th century. [1] In 1921, the London General Omnibus Company opened a 33-acre bus maintenance facility on a site bounded by Chiswick High Road to the south, the North London line to the east and the Piccadilly line to the north. [2]
Chiswick (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ z ɪ k / ⓘ CHIZ-ik) [3] is a district in West London, split between the London Boroughs of Hounslow and Ealing.It contains Hogarth's House, the former residence of the 18th-century English artist William Hogarth, Chiswick House, a neo-Palladian villa regarded as one of the finest in England and Fuller's Brewery, London's largest and oldest brewery.
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Bush Radio Ltd expanded rapidly moving to a new factory at Power Road, Chiswick in 1936. [7] Bush became part of the Rank empire in 1945 and a brand new factory was opened at Ernesettle, Plymouth in 1949. [8] In 1946 the DAC90, [9] designed by Frank Middleditch, [10] featured in the V&A exhibition Britain Can Make It. [11]