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  2. Holborn - Wikipedia

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    The Great Fire died as it reached Holborn's boundary. Rocque map of 1746. Holborn is developed, but the built-up area stopped at the brook which formed the parish boundary with St Pancras (modern King's Cross) to the north. The area was not damaged by the Great Fire of London in 1666, though the area of destruction reached its south-eastern ...

  3. Metropolitan Borough of Holborn - Wikipedia

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    Holborn was the smallest of the twenty-eight metropolitan boroughs of the County of London, with an area of between 405 and 407 acres (1.6 km 2). Therefore, it was even smaller than the City of London. It also had the smallest population of any of the boroughs throughout its existence. The populations recorded in National Censuses were:

  4. Gamages - Wikipedia

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    Gamages was an extremely successful and profitable store. In 1968 a second store was opened in the Liberty Shopping Centre in Romford, Essex. This had a relatively short life as the whole company was taken over by Jeffrey Sterling's Sterling Guarantee Trust in 1970 [7] [8] and the Romford site was sold off to British Home Stores in 1971. [9]

  5. The People's Supermarket - Wikipedia

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    The People's Supermarket is a community interest company whose stated aim is to provide the local community with good cheap food that is fair to consumers and producers. It was founded in May 2010 by Arthur Potts Dawson with regeneration advisor/entrepreneur David Barrie and retail specialist Kate Wickes-Bull, supported by a team of supporters and professional advisors, in Lamb's Conduit ...

  6. High Holborn - Wikipedia

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    High Holborn (/ ˈ h oʊ b ər n / HOH-bərn) is a street in Holborn and Farringdon Without, Central London, which forms a part of the A40 route from London to Fishguard. It starts in the west at the eastern end of St Giles High Street and runs past the Kingsway and Southampton Row , becoming Holborn at its eastern junction with Gray's Inn Road .

  7. Holborn District (Metropolis) - Wikipedia

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    Holborn was a local government district in the metropolitan area of London to the north west of the City of London from 1855 to 1900. The district was formed by the Metropolis Management Act 1855 from the following Middlesex civil parishes and places: [4] The Liberty of Glasshouse Yard; The Liberty of Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and ...

  8. Sainsbury's - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Holborn division - Wikipedia

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    It gave its name to the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn created in 1900. The area is now covered by the London Borough of Camden and the northern section of the City of Westminster. In 1829 the Holborn Division contained the following "parishes, townships, precincts and places": The combined parishes of St Giles in the Fields and St George ...