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  2. List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire: Train derailed crossing a temporary railway bridge over road widening work at well in excess of the temporary 10 mph (16 km/h) speed limit. [ 245 ] 3 June 1964

  3. List of supermarket chains in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Tesco is the largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom.. As of November 2024, there are 17 supermarket chains currently operating in the United Kingdom. The food retail market has been dominated by the 'big four' supermarkets – Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons – who made up over three quarters of sector market share in 2010.

  4. Cheshire - Wikipedia

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    Cheshire (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ ʃ ər,-ɪər / CHESH-ər, -⁠eer) [3] is a ceremonial county in North West England.It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shropshire to the south; to the west it is bordered by the Welsh counties of Flintshire and Wrexham, and has a short coastline on the Dee Estuary.

  5. Manchester Piccadilly station - Wikipedia

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    Manchester Piccadilly is the main railway station of the city of Manchester, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England.Opened originally as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and became Manchester Piccadilly in 1960.

  6. List of department stores of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Located in Waverly Road. Rebuilt in 1964. Other location. County Road, Liverpool; 1974 . [414] [415] [416] Frosts Liverpool: Opened as a drapers by Thomas Frost during the 1885 in Walton Road. By 1910 the business operated out of all the stores in the block. Around 1918 the new building was constructed to house Frost department store.

  7. Manchester Corporation Tramways - Wikipedia

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    By 1903 Manchester Corporation had just over 300 cars. The trams were also used to carry parcels from 1905. As late as winter 1905, horse-drawn buses still ran between Palatine Road and Cheadle and on down to Northenden, as well as on the route between Chorlton-cum-Hardy and Hulme. Manchester Corporation Tramways proposed an experimental motor ...

  8. Stockport - Wikipedia

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    Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, England, 8 miles (13 km) south-east of Manchester, 9 miles (14 km) south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and 12 miles (19 km) north of Macclesfield.

  9. Stretford - Wikipedia

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    Stretford Mall was built on the site of the original shopping centre in the former King Street. The Trafford Centre, a large shopping and leisure complex opened in September 1998, lies to the northwest of Stretford about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) away. [68] Stretford's town centre, showing Stretford Mall in the midground