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The Holborn District was created in 1855, consisting of the civil parishes and extra-parochial places of Holborn outside the city; St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr, Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place, as well as two tiny units that were added from the Finsbury Division: Glasshouse Yard and St ...
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Holborn Town Hall, built in 1894, still exists, on High Holborn, and still has the coat of arms in the façade. [2] The entrance gate piers to the church of St Giles-in-the-Fields commemorate the Borough when it was amalgamated in 1965, and bear an inscription to this effect, although the arch that bore the borough's arms has since been removed.
A map showing the wards of St Pancras Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916. 1950–1974: The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn, and wards five, six, seven and eight of the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras. 1974–1983: The London Borough of Camden wards of Bloomsbury, Euston, Holborn, King's Cross, Regent's Park, and St Pancras.
The section between Highway 401 and the then-unopened Highway 407 interchange was turned over to the Region of York and the City of Toronto on April 1, 1995, and is known as Markham Road south of Highway 407, and Main Street thereafter to Sixteenth Avenue, where the name Markham Road resumes for 2 km (1.2 mi) until Major Mackenzie Drive.
The Holborn rail crash occurred on the Central line at Holborn on 9 July 1980, at about 13:28 and involved two 1962 stock trains. The 13:17 train from Liverpool Street to White City , standing at the westbound platform, was run into by the 12:49 Hainault to Ealing Broadway train.
J Sainsbury plc, trading as Sainsbury's, [a] is a British supermarket and the second-largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom.. Founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury with a shop in Drury Lane, London, the company was the largest UK retailer of groceries for most of the 20th century.
In April 2005, Sainsbury's acquired SL Shaw Ltd, a neighbourhood convenience shop operator with five shops in the south-east of England. After a programme of refurbishment, the five shops converted to the Sainsbury's Local format, combining Shaw's reputation and customer service with Sainsbury's expertise in fresh and convenience foods. [8]