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Pets at Home was sold to Bridgepoint Capital for £230 million in July 2004. [6] In November 2007, the 200th store, Barnstaple, opened. [7] On 27 January 2010, Pets at Home was sold by Bridgepoint Capital to US-based investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) for around £955 million. [8] In March 2014, the company was the subject of an ...
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 ...
Pool in the Park flumes [needs update]Pool in the Park is a purpose-built swimming complex in the middle of the park. It has three pools, the competition pool that is one to three metres deep, 25m long and 13m wide, with up to 6 swim lanes, which opened in 1989; a teaching pool 16 metres long x 8 metres and 0.8m - 1.0m depth and the leisure lagoon which includes three Water Slides which vary ...
English: Pets at Home, Park Road Retail Park, Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Taken on the evening of Friday the 4th September 2020. Date: 4 September 2020, 18:44:10:
Woking's all-time record home league attendance at Kingfield came on Sunday 2 January 2022, when 5,171 spectators attended the 3-2 National League defeat against Aldershot Town. Commercial director Mick Livesey announced on Twitter the following day that it had beaten the previous record of 4,900 when Woking hosted Wycombe Wanderers back in 1992.
Briarbrae, the Woking home of a Foreign Office employee, Mr Percy Phelps, is a key setting in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 Sherlock Holmes short story "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty". [280] [281] Douglas Adams defined 'Woking' in The Deeper Meaning of Liff as: "Standing in the kitchen wondering what you came in here for". [282]
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.
This is a list of famous or notable people born in, or associated with, the Borough of Woking in England, who have a Wikipedia page. Woking is a town and borough in Surrey , around 23 mi (37 km) southwest of central London.