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Texas Homecare was first established in 1972 by Manny, Sydney and Gerald Fogel, who had previously founded the high street specialist paint and wallpaper chain Home Charm. [2] Using an American business model as inspiration, they revolutionised the UK's DIY market. Texas specialised in higher-volume, lower-margin DIY products.
HHGL Limited. HHGL Limited, [4][3] trading as Homebase, is a British home improvement retailer and garden centre with stores across the United Kingdom and Ireland. Founded by Sainsbury's and GB-Inno-BM in 1979, the company was owned by Home Retail Group from October 2006, until it was sold to the Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers in January ...
The building was surmounted by a central roof lantern. In the 1880s, a group of local businessmen, decided to form a company, to be known as the Biggleswade Town Hall Company, to acquire and expand the building. Low-level extensions were erected at both ends of the building at a cost of £900 and completed in 1888.
Shortmead House Map showing Shortmead Estate in 1804.. Shortmead House in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, is a two-storey Georgian manor house, first mentioned in 1543.The Grade II listed [1] building is lived in by the present owners as well as being used as business premises which are licensed as a wedding venue for civil ceremonies.
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Old Town Hall, Biggleswade. Biggleswade was a constituent part of and gave its name to one of the Hundreds of Bedfordshire from Anglo-Saxon times until the 19th century. From 1892 the town was governed by a Local Board, which became Biggleswade Urban District under the Local Government Act 1894.
Biggleswade Urban District was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, merging with other districts to form the new Mid Bedfordshire District. The area now forms part of Central Bedfordshire. A successor parish was created for the town, with its council taking the name Biggleswade Town Council.
Stratton Park Moated Enclosure (locally known as and sometimes informally referred to as Stratton Moat, also sometimes referred to as Stratton Park Moated Enclosure and Associated Manorial Earthworks or Stratton Manor Moat) is a scheduled ancient monument formed of a moat ditch circuit, counterscarp bank, central platform and walled garden compound located on the south-east edge of Biggleswade ...