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The demolition of the Thorpe Park Estate in the 1930s transformed the grounds into a gravel pit, originally owned by Ready Mixed Concrete Limited.RMC excavated gravel from the site for 30 years from 1941 until 1970 when they began to plan a transformation of the site into a leisure based visitor attraction.
The region's Manufacturing Advisory Service is on the A30 in Hook, north Hampshire [44] The UKTI service for the region [45] is on Victory Park in Whiteley, off junction 9 of the M27, opposite the Solent Hotel. [46] The South East Coast Ambulance Service has three headquarters, one each for Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
Hunslet is first mentioned as Hunslet (sic, for *Hunsflet) in the Domesday Book of 1086, though twelfth-century spellings of the name such as Hunesflete seem to be more conservative: the name appears originally to have meant 'Hūn's creek', from an Anglo-Saxon personal name Hūn [2] (or Hūna [3]) and the Old English word flēot 'creek, inlet', probably referring to an inlet from the River ...
The White Rose Centre is a shopping centre in the Beeston area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. [1] [2] It spans two floors and is near the M621 motorway. It takes its name from the White Rose of York, the traditional symbol of Yorkshire. Most shops are situated on the Ground Floor.
The modern and interactive retail space covers the old Burton Arcades and the former Leeds Shopping Plaza with its main entrance from Briggate. [137] On 20 October 2016, Victoria Gate shopping centre opened with its flagship store, John Lewis. Three quarters of the stores in Victoria Gate were the first for the retailers outside of London. [138]
The Leeds and Bradford company built "a splendid new station" [1] at Wellington, in Leeds, the first in the centre of Leeds. Up until that time the Midland Railway had been using a terminus station at Hunslet Lane, some distance from the centre of Leeds and "in an unsuitable district", [ 1 ] but now was given the facility of using the Leeds and ...
John Lewis & Partners, commonly known as John Lewis, is a British chain of high-end department stores operating across the United Kingdom.It is part of the John Lewis Partnership plc, a holding company held in a trust on behalf of its employees as the beneficiaries of the trust. [3]
Hyperia is a steel roller coaster located at Thorpe Park in Chertsey, Surrey, England.Manufactured by Mack Rides, the hypercoaster opened as the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the UK on 24 May 2024, with a height of 236 feet (72 m) and a maximum speed that reportedly exceeds 80 mph (130 km/h).