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Weston-super-Mare (/ ... ˈ m ɛər /... MAIR) is a seaside town and civil parish in the North Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England.It lies by the Bristol Channel 20 miles (32 km) south-west of Bristol between Worlebury Hill and Bleadon Hill.
Up to March 2024, Toolstation had continued to grow its UK market share, opening 163 new Toolstation branches between 2020 and 2022, and adding seven more in 2023. However, its mainland Europe stores were doing less well, and Travis Perkins announced Toolstation was quitting France and reviewing its operations in Netherlands and Belgium. [11]
The present home of Weston Museum is the former industrial premises of the Weston Gaslight Company. [1] It is a Grade II listed building. [11] [7] It was designed and built by local architects Hans Fowler Price and William Jane in 1912 to house the company's stores and distribution workshops, incorporating an existing stable yard in its construction.
Dismaland was a temporary art project organised by street artist Banksy in the seaside resort of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. [1] Prepared in secret, the pop-up exhibition at the Tropicana , a disused lido , was "a sinister twist on Disneyland " that opened during the weekend of 21 August 2015 [ 2 ] and closed on 27 September 2015 ...
A replica of the locomotive North Star at the site of the first station. The Bristol and Exeter Railway arrived in Weston-super-Mare on 14 June 1841. This was not the route that serves today's station, but rather a single-track branch line from Weston Junction railway station, midway between the present-day Worle and Uphill junctions, which terminated at a small station in Regent Street close ...
Worle (/ w ɜːr l / WURL) is a village in the civil parish of Weston-Super-Mare, in the North Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. It is joined to the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare on its western edge. It, however, maintains a very separate identity, and may now be bigger than its more famous neighbour.
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The building continued to serve as the headquarters of Weston-super-Mare Municipal Borough Council and remained the local seat of government after the enlarged Woodspring District Council was formed in 1974. [6] A large modern red-brick extension was built behind the town hall for use by Woodspring District Council in the 1970s. [2]