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Argos Limited is a British retailer operating in the United Kingdom online and through catalogues, and formerly in Ireland; it was acquired by Sainsbury's supermarket chain in 2016. It was established in November 1972 and is named after the Greek city of Argos. [5]
Bush Radio Ltd expanded rapidly moving to a new factory at Power Road, Chiswick in 1936. [7] Bush became part of the Rank empire in 1945 and a brand new factory was opened at Ernesettle, Plymouth in 1949. [8] In 1946 the DAC90, [9] designed by Frank Middleditch, [10] featured in the V&A exhibition Britain Can Make It. [11]
The land on which the Chiswick Business Park was built had been owned by the Rothschild family and planted as orchards in the 19th century. [1] In 1921, the London General Omnibus Company opened a 33-acre bus maintenance facility on a site bounded by Chiswick High Road to the south, the North London line to the east and the Piccadilly line to the north. [2]
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.
St Michael and All Angels began as a temporary building on Chiswick High Road opposite Chiswick Lane, some distance from its present site, in 1876. The present church at the corner of Turnham Green Terrace and Bath Road, near Turnham Green tube station, was designed by the architect Norman Shaw.
Shops on Chiswick High Road facing Turnham Green. Chiswick High Road is the principal shopping and dining street of Chiswick, a district in the west of London. It was part of the main Roman road running west out of London, and remained the main road until the 1950s when the A4 was built across Chiswick. By the 19th century the road through the ...
The church was the last of the Anglican parishes of Chiswick to be created, serving the new population of the Grove Park area west of Sutton Court Road, which had consisted up until the 1900s mainly of orchards and market gardens. The parish area was taken from the western part of the parish of St Nicholas, Chiswick. [7]
Chiswick Roundabout is a major roundabout with a flyover in Chiswick, West London.It was opened in 1959 and is the meeting point of three roads that terminate here, the A205 South Circular, A315 Chiswick High Road, A406 North Circular; and one road which carries on through and interfaces with the M4 – the A4 Great West Road – therefore, it is extremely busy in daytime.