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Yarnfield Park Training and Conference Centre just outside the town is a major training centre for the UK telecommunications industry. It is owned by BT Group and run by Accenture. Stone is the key UK manufacturing site for the Quickfit laboratory glassware system which finds widespread use in many school, college and university science ...
It has a roughly square shape; the internal courtyard is now a cultural centre. [2] House of Wonders: The House of Wonders (also known as "Beit-al-Ajaib"), lies at the edge of the seafront, and is the most recognizable landmarks of Stone Town. It was built in 1883 and restored after the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896.
A map of Zanzibar City by Oscar Baumann, 1892. Stone Town was the western peninsula. ... In the 19th century Stone Town flourished as a trading centre.
The station was renamed Stone Junction in January 1888, but reverted to the original name Stone at some point between 1923 and 1947. [2] The Colwich platforms were closed in 1947 and subsequently removed. The station building has been redeveloped by Stone Town Council as a community centre. [3]
Bluewater Shopping Centre is located in Stone and is the fourth largest shopping centre in the United Kingdom. It was opened on 16 March 1999 and is located in a former chalk quarry. The site occupies 240 acres and has a sales floor area of 1,600,000 ft2. The centre employs 7,000 people and serves over 27 million visitors a year.
Stones River Town Centre (formerly Stones River Mall) is a partially enclosed regional shopping mall in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States. Built in 1992, it was expanded and renovated in the late 2000s. The mall comprises more than fifty stores. [2] The mall is owned and managed by Sterling Organization.
The town centre is 2.5 miles east of the M5 motorway, junction 13. Stonehouse railway station has a regular train service to London. The town is situated approximately 9 miles south of Gloucester city centre and 4 miles west of central Stroud, though following recent development it is partially contiguous with the Ebley district of Stroud. It ...
The Centre of Stirling Bridge - The Heart of Scotland. Matthew Paris's map of 1247 shows a clear north–south divide to Scotland. Proverbially Stirling is the strategically important "Gateway to the Highlands". It has been said that "Stirling, like a huge brooch clasps Highlands and Lowlands together".