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B&Q Limited (short for Block & Quayle after the company's two founders) is a British multinational DIY, home improvement and garden centre retailing company, with headquarters in Eastleigh, England. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kingfisher plc .
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Handforth Dean is a retail park in Handforth, Cheshire, England; it opened in 1995, alongside the A34. It contains four superstores: Marks & Spencer , Tesco Extra , JD Sports [ 1 ] and Boots . Large Next and Pets at Home stores are sited on a development adjacent to the retail park.
Macclesfield (/ m æ k əl z f i əl d /) is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East, Cheshire, England.It is sited on the River Bollin and the edge of the Cheshire Plain, with Macclesfield Forest to its east; the town lies 16 miles (26 km) south of Manchester and 38 miles (61 km) east of Chester.
Quayle was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire and went to school at Brighton College in 1950. He returned to the school to be a governor in the 1990s. [3]Quayle worked in the Marley Tile company in the 1960s and together with his brother-in-law Richard Block started the B&Q retail chain in 1969 in Southampton.
The origin of the name Stretford is "street" (Old English strǣt) on a ford across the River Mersey. [1]The principal road through Stretford, the A56 Chester Road, follows the line of the old Roman road from Deva Victrix to Mamucium (), crossing the Mersey into Stretford at Crossford Bridge, built at the location of the ancient ford.
Widnes (/ ˈ w ɪ d n ə s / WID-nəss) is an industrial town in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England, which at the 2021 census had a population of 62,400. [1]Historically in Lancashire, it is on the northern bank of the River Mersey where the estuary narrows to form the Runcorn Gap.
Focus DIY, Belper, Derbyshire (2005) Focus DIY, Rawtenstall, Rossendale (2012) Focus was a British do-it-yourself and home improvement retailer, founded in 1987.. The retailer grew by acquiring rival retailers such as Payless, Do It All and Great Mills; by its peak in 2002, it was the second-largest home improvement retailer in the United Kingdom with 178 stores and over 3,000 employees ...