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Comet Electricals Limited, trading as Comet, is an online electrical retail chain based in the United Kingdom. The company sells consumer electronics and white goods, along with related products and services. Its predecessor, under the same brand name, pioneered the concept of the out-of-town discount warehouse in the United Kingdom. [1] [2] [3]
The complex is a notable landmark on the western edge of Glasgow city centre, and is highly visible from the adjacent Kingston Bridge. The complex was voted at Position No. 54 in the Prospect magazine's 100 best modern Scottish buildings. After falling into partial dereliction in the 1990s, the megastructure has undergone major redevelopment ...
Comet was launched on 24 July 1812 [5] with her trial run on 6 August from Port Glasgow to the Broomielaw in Glasgow, taking three and a half hours for the 20 miles (32 kilometres). [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ Note 1 ] The double paddlewheels were found to be unsatisfactory and a pair of single wheels were substituted which increased her speed to almost 7 ...
An application for planning permission was first submitted to Glasgow City Council on 29 September 2016 by development company Keppie Design, with a further two amended planning applications being submitted in 2017 [2] [3] The application for planning permission specified the description of the development as being a mixed use development which would include offices, residential units, hotel ...
At its north-western edge, Albert Bridge is the closest crossing point towards Glasgow city centre. In McNeill Street, Hutchesontown has one of Glasgow's original Carnegie libraries, deftly designed by the Inverness-born architect James Robert Rhind. James Stokes, recipient of the Victoria Cross, was from the area.
There is a bus link to and from Glasgow city centre and Livingston, West Lothian. Eurocentral has warehouse distribution centres, factories, call centres, a railfreight centre which links with Grangemouth docks 28 mi (45 km) to the north east, England to the south and beyond to mainland Europe. The estate also has a large modern hotel ...
Elmbank Gardens is a multi-use commercial complex (and the name given to a former street) in the Charing Cross area of Glasgow, Scotland.Best known for its signature 13-storey tower (often nicknamed the Charing Cross Tower or the Elmbank Tower) which overlooks the M8 motorway and stands directly opposite the Mitchell Library, it was designed by Richard Seifert and constructed between 1970 and ...
Its growth has saw the city centre of Glasgow as well as the district itself become the "brand for Glasgow's financial services community". [8] A further expansion in excess of 3 million sq ft of development has been developed at the International Financial Services District site since it initially opened in 2001. [9]