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Littlewoods pools business was the first to be established and grew into the biggest football pools business in the world. It went on to become the first sponsor of the FA Cup and its winners were often celebrated – notably Viv Nicholson , whose experience was immortalised in the book, play, and musical Spend, Spend, Spend . [ 12 ]
The company rapidly expanded throughout the 1930s, and the Littlewoods Pools building, opened in 1938, [1] was purpose-built to provide more space for its operations. [2] Designed in the Art Deco style, probably by Scottish architect Gerald de Courcy Fraser, the building is an imposing white-rendered structure consisting of a central clock ...
Vernons' Pools was founded in 1925, also in Liverpool, and Zetters was founded 1933 in London. In 1934, the Football Pool Promoters' Association was formed: besides Littlewoods, Vernons and Zetters, its members were the other large pools companies including Cope's Pools (based in London), W.S. Murphy (Edinburgh) and Western Pools (Newport). [10]
Sir John Moores CBE (25 January 1896 – 25 September 1993) [1] was an English businessman, telegraphist, football club owner, politician and philanthropist, most famous for the founding of the now defunct Littlewoods retail and football pools company.
The 86-year-old art deco building is being transformed into a film studio and production hub.
Sir Peter Moores CBE DL (9 April 1932 – 23 March 2016) was a British businessman, art collector and philanthropist who was chairman of the Liverpool-based Littlewoods football pools and retailing business in the United Kingdom between 1977 and 1980.
A former Littlewoods branch in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. The Very Group traces its roots to a variety of independent mail order and retail companies in northern England, particularly Littlewoods, the pools and mail order business founded by John Moores, as well as the Manchester-based home shopping business of Great Universal Stores.
New York. Number of Residential Swimming Pools: 503,000. Average Number of People per Pool: 38. Despite being surrounded by water, New York still has one of the highest numbers of U.S. swimming pools.