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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]
Livingston Designer Outlet is the largest outlet mall in Scotland, [1] and opened in October 2000 under the ownership of McArthur Glen as McArthur Glen Livingston Designer Outlet and sits opposite the popular The Centre (Livingston) shopping centre. The glass roof reminiscent of the Crystal Palace was designed by an architect called Don Hisaka.
The Anderston Centre (originally styled as the Anderston Cross Commercial Centre, but now officially branded as Cadogan Square) is a mixed-use commercial and residential complex, and former bus station located in the Anderston area of Glasgow, Scotland.
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 ...
As Glasgow expanded in the 19th century to become the second city of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the old area became principally a centre of major warehouses, shipping companies, offices, distilleries and clothing manufacturers; while the markets continued in fruit, vegetables, cheese and fish. The more prosperous people moved ...
Silverburn is an out-of-town shopping centre located on Barrhead Road in Pollok, Glasgow, Scotland.The development replaces the 75-acre (30-hectare) Pollok centre with a brand new 1,500,000-square-foot (140,000-square-metre) shopping centre, anchored by Tesco, Next, Marks & Spencer and previously Debenhams before it closed in 2021.
Starting with PS Comet in 1812, Glasgow soon had Clyde steamer services on the River and Firth of Clyde.From 1841 the Caledonian Railway's Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock line offered quicker travel to its Greenock Cathcart Street terminus, about 5 minutes walk from Steamboat Quay (Custom House Quay) by a narrow squalid lane.
The GEAR (Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal) scheme was founded in 1976, then Europe's largest urban regeneration project of its kind, to provide "core areas with development potential" in the east end of Glasgow. A new shopping centre was part of the plan, ideally to replace the then recently closed Parkhead Forge plant of the Beardmore's steel ...