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Billing Aquadrome is a leisure park in Great Billing, a district of eastern Northampton, England. [1] Facilities within the 235-acre (1 km 2) park, which was built around various mature gravel pits, include a caravan site, marina and funfair. It is also frequently home to a wide variety of shows throughout the year, including music events and ...
Billing Aquadrome has recently taken over Northampton Balloon Festival which had previously for a number of years been situated at Racecourse Park in the Town Centre. There is a contrast of housing within the Billing ward with large houses dotted around Great Billing and Little Billing keeping the traditional 'village feel' as when both were ...
A garden centre (Commonwealth English spelling; U.S. nursery or garden center) is a retail operation that sells plants and related products for the domestic garden as its primary business. It is a development from the concept of the retail plant nursery but with a wider range of outdoor products and on-site facilities.
Dobbies Garden Centre, Aberdeen. The business was founded in 1865 by James Dobbie, who created a seeds business named Dobbie & Co. in Renfrew, Scotland.After being awarded the Royal Warrant for Gardeners and Nurserymen to the Royal Household, the company expanded into a seed catalogue business, where it built up a customer base of 50,000 over the following century.
A further four centres were sold to individual buyers on 4 September 2018 [14] Dobbies Garden Centres, headquartered in Scotland, agreed to purchase a portfolio of five Wyevale Garden Centres sites in England on 8 October. [15] On 21 May 2019, Wyevale announced the sale of two garden centres to Blackbrooks Garden Centres.
Its first garden centre was Woodthorpe Hall, built on a farm. [6] In 2010, it acquired its fifth garden centre. [7] In 2018, the firm operated ten garden centres. [4] In 2019, the company acquired 37 garden centres from Wyevale Garden Centres. [8] In December 2019, the firm completed its acquisition of Hillview, a chain of eight garden centres. [9]
Also the legislation concerning (super)markets bigger than 400 m 2 in sales area was clarified by discarding the law of six designated Sundays and replacing it with Sunday opening hours from May to August and from November to December. On 15 December 2015, the Finnish parliament voted to remove all opening hour restrictions for all retailers.
The border created by Sir Harold Hillier in 1964 to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the business.. Hillier Nurseries is a horticultural business which was founded by Edwin Hillier in 1864 as a florist and plant nursery.