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Brentwood is a town in Essex, England, in the London commuter belt 20 miles (30 km) north-east of Charing Cross and close to the M25 motorway. The population of the built-up area was 55,340 in 2021. [1] Brentwood is a town with a shopping area along the High Street, a Roman road which became one of the main roads between London and East Anglia ...
Dorking (/ ˈ d ɔːr k ɪ ŋ /) is a market town in Surrey in South East England about 21 mi (34 km) south of London. It is in Mole Valley District and the council headquarters are to the east of the centre. The High Street runs roughly east–west, parallel to the Pipp Brook and along the northern face of an outcrop of Lower Greensand.
Opened by James Lidstone after purchasing the drapery business of Thomas Brailey, and by 1899 he had started buying further shops in St James Street. In the 1930s, 2 of the shops were sold to Montague Burton, with the remaining stores being sold to the London Co-operative Society in 1946, two years before his death. [567] Lingards Bradford
Within different parts of Brentwood, the A1023 is called (from west to east) Brook Street, London Road, High Street, Shenfield Road, and Chelmsford Road. The other main road in the borough is the A127 Southend Arterial Road , which separates from the A12 near Romford and then proceeds easterly to Southend-on-Sea .
WH Smith PLC, trading as WHSmith (also written WH Smith, and known colloquially as Smith's and formerly as W. H. Smith & Son), is a British retailer, with headquarters in Swindon, England, which operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, entertainment products and confectionery.
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A huge sinkhole in a street in Surrey is continuing to grow and swallow up more road, with the county council declaring a major incident. The original hole first appeared in Godstone High Street ...
2011 June - Moss Bros sells 8 of its 9 Cecil Gee shops to JD Fashion Group Plc for £1.7 million. The remaining Cecil Gee shop in Glasgow is re-branded as a Moss shop. 2016 Spring - Moss introduces a high street personalisation suiting service, 'Tailor-Me', of which nothing similar has been done on the UK, taking over from Moss Bespoke.