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All of Boots Opticians' laser eye surgeries were bought by Optical Express in late 2004. [ citation needed ] On 29 January 2009, it was announced that Boots Opticians were to merge with Dollond & Aitchison , forming a chain of 690 stores and 5,000 staff after Boots purchased a controlling share in D&A. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In May 2019, the company was ...
Dollond & Aitchison was one of the oldest chains of retail opticians in the United Kingdom, having been established in 1750. The business was absorbed into Boots Opticians in 2009 and stores were rebranded under the Boots Opticians name, completed in 2015.
Luton Point is in the centre of Luton, in Bedfordshire, England.It was formerly an Arndale Centre, until it was purchased by Capital & Regional in January 2006. [2] It was temporarily called The Mall Arndale, but was later referred to as The Mall Luton, although local people still refer to it as "The Arndale".
The Swansgate Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in the town centre of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England. [1] It is the second largest shopping centre in Northamptonshire after the Grosvenor Centre in Northampton. It was built in the early 1970s and was originally known as the Arndale Centre. [2]
The first Arndale Centre, in Jarrow, opened in 1961.It is now known as the Viking Centre. The Cross Gates Centre in Cross Gates, Leeds was an Arndale Centre until 2000.. In 1950, Arnold Hagenbach, a baker with a talent for property investment, and Sam Chippendale, an estate agent from Otley, set up a company called the Arndale Property Trust, the name being a portmanteau of "Arnold" and ...
Totem sculpture by Franta Belsky in the Arndale Centre (1977) A 1977 photo of the interior of the Arndale. The centre was divided by Market Street and Cannon Street. South of Market Street, on the site of the old Guardian buildings, was a branch of Boots. Market Street was bridged by a mall, Knightsbridge and later Voyager Bridge.
St Clement's Church served the Halton area of Hastings from 1839 until its demolition in 1970. In the English county of East Sussex, many former chapels, churches and other places of worship have been demolished without direct replacement. Declining congregations, structural problems, commercial redevelopment, wartime bombing and many other reasons have contributed to the loss of more than 70 ...
There are more than 130 listed buildings in the town and borough of Eastbourne, a seaside resort on the coast of East Sussex in England. Eastbourne, whose estimated population in 2011 was 99,400, [1] grew from a collection of farming hamlets into a fashionable holiday destination in the mid-19th century; close attention was paid to urban planning and architecture, and the main landowners the ...