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Atkinsons Department Store. Atkinsons is a family-owned department store located on The Moor in Sheffield, England.The store has been trading for around 150 years and sells a wide range of merchandise including fashion, furniture, bedding, homewares, curtains, blinds, lighting, gifts, cosmetics & fragrance, beds, domestic appliances footwear, bags, luggage, and cookshop.
The Builders Merchants' Company ranks eighty-eighth in the order of precedence for Livery Companies. Its motto is Stat Fortuna Domus , Latin for The Fortune of the House Continues . The Company's Chaplain is The Reverend Canon Roger Hall MBE and its church is St Peter ad Vincula [ 1 ]
Christopher G. Pickering (9 November 1842 – 22 December 1920) [1] [2] was a British businessman and philanthropist. He made his fortune as a merchant and ship owner, particularly in the Kingston upon Hull fish trade. In 1914 he founded a park, almshouses, church and children's home in west Hull. The park and almshouses still bear his name.
Richard Atkinson (1739–1785) was an English merchant and government contractor, an East India Company director, and for a short period Member of Parliament for New Romney. He was noted as a supplier of rum to the armed forces, and as a political ally of the 1780s of William Pitt the Younger .
Buildbase is a builders’ merchants in the United Kingdom, and is approaching two hundred branches nationwide. Buildbase is part of Huws Gray having been bought from Grafton Group plc in a deal that saw Grafton sell its merchanting business in the UK. [1] It is a member of the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF).
The brand was founded by James Atkinson, who was later joined by his brother Edward Atkinson. [1] James Atkinson traveled to London from Cumberland in the far north of England, with detailed recipes of toiletries and fragrances that he had concocted, along with bear's grease balm and a real bear.
Elliott Brothers is a builders' merchant based in Southampton, United Kingdom. The company's headquarters is in Millbank Street, Northam and it has a chain of outlets in and around Hampshire and Dorset. [1] It also operates an online tool warehouse that serves the whole of the United Kingdom. [2]
Dudley Leavitt Pickman was born at Salem, Massachusetts, in May 1779, the second son of Salem's chief Naval Officer, William Pickman (1748–1815) and his wife Elizabeth (Leavitt) Pickman, daughter of Dudley Leavitt, [3] an early Congregational minister in Salem, and his wife Mary (Pickering) Leavitt, sister of United States Secretary of State Timothy Pickering.