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Hamleys of London Limited, trading as Hamleys, is a British multinational toy retailer, owned by Reliance Retail. Listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest toy store, it was founded by William Hamley as "Noah's Ark" in High Holborn, London, in 1760. It moved to its current site on Regent Street in London's West End in 1881 ...
Hamleys toy store in Regent Street with its 2006 Christmas decorations. Date: 3 December 2006: Source: From geograph.org.uk: Author: Martin Addison: Attribution
Norfolk is in northwestern Connecticut, in the Litchfield Hills.It includes the Norfolk Historic District, which covers the historic center of the village, but also extends west to include Old Colony Road, Blackberry Street, and Valley View Road, north to include Shepard Road, east to include Laurel Way and Beacon Lane, and south to include Highfield Road, Grant Street, and Battell Road. [2]
Norfolk has important examples of regional architecture, notably the Village Hall (now Infinity Hall, a shingled 1880s Arts-and-Crafts confection, with an opera house upstairs and storefronts at street level); the Norfolk Library (a shingle-style structure, designed by George Keller, c. 1888 /1889); and over thirty buildings, in a wide variety ...
The toy store Hamleys is at No. 188 Regent Street, just south of Oxford Circus. It was founded as Noah's Ark at No. 231 High Holborn in 1760. [43] An additional branch opened at Nos. 64–66 Regent Street in 1881, while the original High Holborn building burned down in 1901, moving to Nos. 86–87.
The NR postcode area, also known as the Norwich postcode area, [2] is a group of 35 postcode districts in the east of England, within 16 post towns.These cover central, north and eastern Norfolk (including Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Attleborough, Wymondham, Dereham, Fakenham, Walsingham, Wells-next-the-Sea, Melton Constable, Holt, Sheringham, Cromer and North Walsham) and part of north-east ...
The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [ 1 ] There are 174 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 4 National Historic Landmarks .
Because of its location at the Y-fork of the Thames, Shetucket and Yantic Rivers, Chelsea became the home of the city's former shipping harbor located on Hollyhock Island. . Because of Norwich's industrial and commercial nature, this neighborhood is quite large, with its borders extending from Washington Street in the west to Burnham Square in the e