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Writing in the "Oxford Diary" column in The Times in January 1984, A. N. Wilson labelled the newly built centre as "the most grotesquely horrible building I have ever seen"; [18] in 1985, a reporter for The Observer described the centre's "phoney unfunctional pipes" and Bavarian marble floors. [19] The Shoe Lane entrance prior to the 2012–14 ...
Woolworths head office on Marylebone Road, London. The British branch of the F. W. Woolworth Company, which had been founded in Pennsylvania, F. W. Woolworth & Co. Ltd, was founded by Frank Woolworth in Liverpool, England, on 5 November 1909. [18]
The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's or simply Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the pioneers of the five-and-dime store.It was among the most successful American and international five-and-dime businesses, setting trends and creating the modern retail model that stores follow worldwide today.
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Woodstock Road, Oxford; Worcester Street This page was last edited on 20 September 2022, at 15:11 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The church is named after the medieval gate of Oxford's city walls that spanned the north end of Cornmarket. Near this church was the Bocardo Prison , where the Oxford Martyrs were imprisoned in 1555–56 before being burnt at the stake outside the town wall in what is now Broad Street nearby.
Walt Disney’s road to success was anything but smooth. His first commercial art studio, Laugh-O-Gram Studios, went bankrupt. Disney was broke and out of luck — but not out of ideas. He moved ...
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