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Shearings (legally Shearings Travel Limited) [1] is a coach tour operator, part of the Leger Shearings Group, based in the United Kingdom.The tour operator brand specialises in holidays including escorted tours, unescorted tours, short breaks, self-drive holidays and river cruises throughout the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, Ireland and Continental Europe.
Leger started operating coach tour holidays between the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, from their base in Rotherham, South Yorkshire since 1983. [3] [7] [8]The parent company, as of 2022, is Leger Shearings Group which is 70% owned by Ian and Kathleen Henry, with the remaining 30% owned by company directors, Liam Race, Andrew Oldfield and Chris Plummer.
This was followed in April 2005 with Wallace Arnold merging with Shearings in a £200,000,000 (equivalent to £377,194,000 in 2023) deal to become WA Shearings, claiming a 14% share of the UK coach holiday market. [1] [11] [12] In 2007 the Wallace Arnold name was dropped, with the company name simplified to Shearings Holidays. [13]
Warner Hotels (formally Warner Leisure Hotels) is a hospitality company owning 14 country and coastal properties around the UK in North Wales, Somerset, Herefordshire, Berkshire, North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Isle of Wight, Suffolk, Hampshire and Warwickshire. Founded in 1932 as Warner Holiday Camps, later known as Warner Holidays and has ...
During World War II, the boat was taken into government service as the USAT Butterfield, LT-145, serving in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea. The Roen Steamship Company acquired the tug, renaming it John Purves (after the firm's general manager) and using it as a salvage vessel. It was later donated to the Door County Maritime Museum.
During the filming, Kubrick was asked not to use the room number 217 (the room in the book) in the production, as it could be offputting for future guests of the lodge.
A hotelship is a passenger ship which is used for a period as a hotel. A botel or boatel is a boat that serves as a hotel or hostel. Currently there are few permanent hotel ships. [1] [2] The word is a portmanteau of boat and hotel. Botels may range from small [1] or larger [3] purpose-built or converted boats or other watercraft, to converted ...
Bernard Lyman was the co-founder of Lyman Brothers Boat Builders and Lyman Boat Works. Lyman founded the company with his brother, Herman Lyman, in 1875. [1] He designed and built the clinker (boat building) built boat, the Lyman. [2] The Lyman boat has a reputation for, as Tom Koroknay says, "mastering the rugged chop of Lake Erie. [3]