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The Aga Range Cooker is known for its longevity, with many cookers still operating after more than 50 years. In 2009, in conjunction with The Daily Telegraph and to celebrate the 80th anniversary of its founding, AGA Rangemaster set up a competition to find the oldest AGA range cooker still in use. [11]
AGA Rangemaster Limited [1] is a British manufacturer of range cookers, kitchen appliances, and interior furnishings owned by Middleby Corporation [2] in September 2015 after it received a takeover approach from Whirlpool. It employs just over 2,500 people worldwide.
The following table and map show the areas in Ireland, previously designated as Cities, Boroughs, or Towns in the Local Government Act 2001. Under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, Ireland had a two-tier system of local authorities. The first tier consisted of administrative counties and county boroughs.
In about 1850, Musgrave went into business with his brother Edgar to trade tea and sugar, founding H & E Musgrave, Ann Street, Belfast. [1] [8]The novelist, Forrest Reid, was an apprentice as a young man in the firm and wrote, "Though generosity was not a Musgrave characteristic I liked Henry: towards his brother, Edgar, when I watched him saving the backs of envelopes and lifting little bits ...
Belfast (/ ˈ b ɛ l f æ s t / ⓘ, BEL-fast, /-f ɑː s t /, -fahst; [a] from Irish: Béal Feirste [bʲeːlˠ ˈfʲɛɾˠ(ə)ʃtʲə] ⓘ) [3] [4] is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.
The urban and rural districts of Northern Ireland were created in 1899 when the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 came into effect. They were based on the system of district councils introduced in England and Wales four years earlier. (See List of Irish local government areas 1898–1921 for a historical list of districts in all of Ireland.)
AGA AB, previously AB Gasaccumulator and AB Svenska Gasaccumulator, was a Swedish industrial gas company founded in 1904. Nobel Prize laureate Gustaf Dalén was an important part of the development of the company. Inventions included the AGA cooker and the Dalén light. In the 1990s, AGA conceived and developed HiQ for specialty gases.
Belfast City Centre is the central business district of Belfast, Northern Ireland.. The city centre was originally centred on the Donegall Street area. Donegall Street is now mainly a business area, but with expanding residential and entertainment development as part of the Cathedral Quarter scheme - St. Anne's, Belfast's Anglican cathedral is located here.