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The Oracle is a large indoor shopping and leisure mall on the banks of the River Kennet in Reading, Berkshire, England. Partly on the site of a 17th-century workhouse of the same name , it was developed and is owned by a joint venture of Hammerson and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority .
3 (Marks & Spencer, House of Fraser & John Lewis) Total retail floor area: 1,675,955 square feet (155,701.3 m 2) No. of floors: 2 (3 in parts) Parking: 13,000 cars 39 Pod Point spaces 17 Tesla Spaces 15 coaches/motorhomes: Public transit access: Bluewater bus stop : Website: bluewater.co.uk
House of Fraser and Frasers are a British department store chain with 26 locations across the United Kingdom and 2 in Ireland, part of Frasers Group. It was established in Glasgow, Scotland in 1849 as Arthur and Fraser. By 1891, it was known as Fraser & Sons. The company grew steadily during the early 20th century and in 1936 began a period of ...
There are three major department stores in Reading: John Lewis & Partners (known as Heelas until 2001), [109] Debenhams (now closed down), and House of Fraser. [110] The Broad Street branch of bookseller Waterstone's is a conversion of a nonconformist chapel dating from 1707. [111]
William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury executed for treason during the Civil War, was born in 1573 at a house where the junction of Broad Street and Queen Victoria Street now lies. During the Siege of Reading in that war, Francis Walsingham 's town house , on the corner of Broad Street and Minster Street, was used by Robert Devereux , the ...
The calendar that hangs on a kitchen wall in the old Ho Toy restaurant is still flipped to December 2022, the second-to-last of approximately 768 months the Downtown mainstay was in business.. The ...
The restaurant's origins can be traced back to its opening by chef Richard Sandford in 1984 [3] when it was known as Milton Sandford. It was then purchased by Nico Ladenis, who left the restaurant he renamed as Chez Nico, less than a year later in 1986. A few months later, John Burton-Race opened the restaurant, calling it L'Ortolan. [2]
Nestlé Toll House Café was a franchise in the United States and Canada founded by Ziad Dalal [2] and his partner Doyle Liesenfelt. The two started Crest Foods, Inc. D/B/A " Nestlé Toll House Café by Chip" in 2000 in Dallas, Texas.