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Village Inn was founded by James Mola and Merton Anderson, who opened the first Village Inn Pancake House in Denver in 1958 at 8855 East Colfax Avenue. [5] [6] They incorporated as Village Inn Pancake House, Inc., in December 1959, and began franchising in 1961, with Dow Sherwood opening the first franchised locations in Tampa, Florida.
Taj Quilon Restaurant is a restaurant situated in Buckingham Gate, London. [1] [2] [3] The restaurant was opened in 1999 and owned by Taj hotels. [4] [5] It is the first South Indian restaurant in the world to win a Michelin star, which it has retained since 2008. [6] [7] The restaurant was named after Quilon, the old name of Kollam. [8]
Interior of Victoria Place. Victoria Place (formerly known as The Peacocks) is a multi-storey shopping and leisure centre in Woking, Surrey, England.Construction of the centre was completed in 1992, providing approximately 90 consumer service/retail units; nine varieties of daytime restaurants, fast food shops and cafés and a link to the area's largest theatre and cinema with entrances ...
Old Woking, around 1 mi (1.6 km) south of the town centre, [22] close to the River Wey, is the location of the original settlement of the manor of Woking. The village is thought to have grown as an unplanned settlement surrounding St Peter's Church, parts of which date from the 11th century.
Westfield was one of three ‘open fields’ of the ancient town of Woking (see Old Woking) and was first recorded in 1548. [2] The ‘west’ field was in fact divided into two areas with the ‘lower west field’ occupying the area of present-day Westfield Avenue and the Football Ground and the ‘upper west field’ covering the area to the south and east of the Westfield Road.
The village church of St Mary Magdalen has a fine Norman chancel and is a Grade II* listed building. [8] Among the more than 20 listed buildings and cottages in the village are Pinnocks Café [9] the Ship Inn and Ye Old Sweet Shoppe, [10] J Hartley Antiques, Sage Antiques (Green Cottage), the Clock House [11] and the Old Pharmacy. [12]
Molly was the barmaid daughter of the publican of the old Rose Inn (not on the site of the present one). She was well known to local Binfield man, Alexander Pope, who, during a storm, found himself stranded at the inn with his friends, Gay, Swift and Arbuthnot. They wrote the ballad extolling her virtues to pass the time. [31]
St Johns and Hook Heath is a suburban ward in Surrey consisting of two settlements founded in the 19th century in the medieval parish of Woking.The two 'villages' have residents' associations and are centred 2.5 km WSW and SW of Woking's town centre in the northwest of the English county – by including such suburbs, Woking is the largest town in the county.