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Makro had also expanded to the United States in the mid-1980s. In 1989, Kmart bought the US locations, [2] and converted most of them to Pace Warehouse in 1990. Makro expanded to Asia with its first store in Thailand in 1989. Operating as Siam Makro, the company is a joint venture between Charoen Pokphand and SHV Holdings. In 1994, Siam Makro ...
James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance-Holland c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.. The explorer, cartographer and navigator, Captain James Cook was born to James and Grace Cook, in a clay-built cottage in the village of Marton in 1728, and he lived for a short time in the village, until the family moved to Great Ayton. [3]
Middlesbrough was the first major British town and industrial target to be bombed during the Second World War. The steel-making capacity and railways for carrying steel products were obvious targets. The Luftwaffe first bombed the town on 25 May 1940, when a lone bomber dropped 13 bombs between South Bank Road and the South Steel plant. [21]
The Borough of Middlesbrough is a district in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Tees Valley region, along with the boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar and Cleveland, Hartlepool and Darlington. The district covers the town of Middlesbrough, Nunthorpe civil parish and Stainton and Thornton civil parish.
The Cleveland Centre, is a shopping centre in the town of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. It is owned by Middlesbrough Council, previous Waypoint New Frontier until 2022. [1] It was renamed The Mall (after its previous owner The Mall Fund) in 2011 but reverted to the original name the following year. [2]
After the Angles, the area became home to Viking settlers. Names of Viking origin (with the suffix by meaning village [4]) are abundant in the area; for example, Ormesby, Stainsby and Tollesby were once separate villages that belonged to Vikings called Orm, Steinn and Toll that are now areas of Middlesbrough were recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Middlesbrough is a town in the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Pages in category "Areas within Middlesbrough" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
The town of Middlesbrough had been incorporated as a municipal borough in 1853. [6] When elected county councils were established in 1889 it was considered large enough to provide its own county-level services, and so it was made a county borough, independent from the new North Riding County Council, whilst remaining part of the North Riding of Yorkshire for ceremonial purposes.