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Birmingham district shown within the West Midlands county This is a list of statutory listed pubs in Birmingham, West Midlands, England. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Grade Criteria I Buildings of exceptional interest. II* Particularly important buildings of more than special ...
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.
Woolworths was a British high-street variety retail chain and conglomerate. At its height, it operated as Woolworths Group PLC , which included other companies such as the entertainment distributor Entertainment UK , and book and resource distributor Bertram Books .
Life without Woolworths was unthinkable and yet, in the blink of an eye, it was all too real. A hundred years after the first UK shop opened in Liverpool, all 807 branches closed up for good in ...
Big W (later named Woolworths Big W) was a British retail chain owned by the Kingfisher Group (later Woolworths Group PLC) in the United Kingdom, which operated between 1998 and 2004. Big W stores were large format out-of-town megastores that featured products from all of Kingfisher's main retail chains at the time, consisting of Comet , B&Q ...
The Trocadero, 17 Temple Street, Birmingham, England, currently a pub, is a dazzling demonstration of the use of coloured glazed tile and terracotta in the post-Victorian era of architecture. Formerly the Fire Engine House for the Norwich Union Insurance Company (1846, Edge & Avery), it was altered in 1883 to make the Bodega wine bar.
Birmingham was the terminus for both of the world's first two long-distance railway lines: the 82-mile (132 km) Grand Junction Railway of 1837 and the 112-mile (180 km) London and Birmingham Railway of 1838. [86] Birmingham schoolteacher Rowland Hill invented the postage stamp and created the first modern universal postal system in 1839. [87]
Teenager arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after incident at pub in Birmingham. ... A rate of 178 per 100,000 of the population was recorded in the area between April 2023 and March 2024 ...