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Today, Tattersalls is the leading bloodstock auctioneer in Europe, selling 10,000 horses a year.It still prices horses in guineas (originally 21 shillings and now one pound and five pence), in accordance with horse-racing tradition.
Brightwells was a department store in Southend-on-Sea, England. The store was founded by John Rumbelow Brightwell and opened on the city's High Street in the 19th century as a drapery . [ 1 ] This became a department store which was incorporated in 1909 as J.R. Brightwell Ltd. [ 2 ] Its direct competitors were Keddies , J F Dixons and Thomas ...
The Brightwells Mill Complex historic 19th-century mill complex at 684 Brightwells Mill Road in Madison Heights, Amherst County, Virginia. It includes a reconstructed 1826 wood-frame mill, dam, miller's house, a number of outbuildings, and a small cemetery. The dam and mill both date to 1942, when a flash flood destroyed 19th-century structures.
[2] [4] Through service from Worcester to Fitchburg ended in 1926, and the last passenger service through Leominster Center ended in 1931. The line is now used for freight service from the south but is abandoned north of Mechanic Street in downtown Leominster. [2] The 1878 Leominster Center station still stands at 24 Columbia Street. [20]
In 2016, Bonhams held its first online-only auction; the sale of watches from the collection of a European nobleman. [citation needed] In September 2018, Bonhams was acquired by the UK-based private equity company, Epiris. [8] In January 2022, Bonhams acquired the Nordic auction house Bukowskis for an undisclosed sum. [9]
"Brightwell" is derived from the Old English for "bright spring". [3] " Baldwin" is the name of a family that held the manor.The earliest known record of Brightwell Baldwin is a Saxon charter of 854 in the Cartularium Saxonicum that records the toponym as Beorhtawille or Brihtanwylle.
In the fifteenth century Brightwell Manor was possessed by William Curzon. [3] His son, Sir Robert Curson, Knt., created a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire by the Emperor Maximilian for his gallantry against the Turks, was a Yorkist conspirator and declared a traitor in 1501, although was later back in favour at the English Court.
Brightwell-cum-Sotwell is a twin-village and civil parish in the Upper Thames Valley in South Oxfordshire.It lies between Didcot to the west and the historic market town of Wallingford to the east.