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Hamleys of London Limited, trading as Hamleys, is a British multinational toy retailer, owned by Reliance Retail.Listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest toy store, it was founded by William Hamley as "Noah's Ark" in High Holborn, London, in 1760.
High Holborn (/ ˈ h oʊ b ər n / HOH-bərn) is a street in Holborn and Farringdon Without, Central London, which forms a part of the A40 route from London to Fishguard. It starts in the west at the eastern end of St Giles High Street and runs past the Kingsway and Southampton Row , becoming Holborn at its eastern junction with Gray's Inn Road .
On October 19, 2021, Trigo launched its second store with Tesco, on High Holborn Street in London, [8] who named the checkout-free store 'GetGo.' [9] In 2021, Trigo also opened stores with retailers REWE in Cologne, Germany on October 26, 2021;, [10] and Netto Marken-Discount in Munich, Germany on December 16, 2021. [11]
Increasing the number of titles published year over year, by 1956 Thames & Hudson had outgrown its High Holborn offices and moved to Bloomsbury Street just off Bedford Square, which was at the time the centre of London book publishing. Remaining at that address for 43 years, it moved back to High Holborn in 1999.
The B.M.C. Company was located at 32 Great St Helens, London, England. This metal casting company was a neighbor to Bassett-Lowke, its store being within walking distance from the Bassett-Lowke shop located on High Holborn St. Roland Fuller describes in extensive detail the range of inexpensive metal ships offered to Bassett-Lowke customers.
The A40 here is named High Holborn. One of the four Inns of Court, Gray's Inn, is on the north side of the road. Another, Lincoln's Inn, is on the south side. The road is now in the Borough of Camden. Leaving Holborn, the A40 crosses into the City of Westminster, forming New Oxford Street. The British Museum is close at this point.
Staple Inn in 2014. Staple Inn is a part-Tudor building on the south side of High Holborn street in the City of London, London, England.Located near Chancery Lane tube station, it is used as the London venue for meetings of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, and is the last surviving Inn of Chancery.
Kingsway Telephone Exchange has two entrances. One is next to a shopfront at 32 High Holborn, the other is a goods lift on Furnival Street. A third access point, a combination of ventilation towers and a passenger lift at Tooks Court, was demolished in 2001. [4]: 146