Posted on January 26, 2021 in Articles
As
Middlesbrough boss
Neil Warnock prepares to face one of his 16 former clubs in Rotherham on Wednesday evening, Holly Hunt caught up with the veteran to discuss how it all started some 40 years ago.
Warnock celebrates promotion to the Football League with Scarborough back in 1987 (The Scarborough News)
When he stepped into the breach at Rotherham United at the tail end of the 2015/16 season, Neil Warnock himself wasn’t sure he would be able to keep the Championship strugglers from the drop.
In November 2015, his wife Sharon was diagnosed with breast cancer and Warnock initially turned Rotherham down, until he overheard a conversation between his wife and a health care worker.
Woolworths One of Britain’s quintessential high street stores has to be Woolworths. As children we used to run in after school to grab a bag of pick ‘n’ mix whilst tasting the odd one as we went. Mums always referred to it as ‘Woolies’ and no back-to-school shop was complete without stopping into the store. The “Woolworths 3d & 6d Store” was on the Church Street side of Queen Sq, Nos 5&6, and opened to shoppers early in 1927. It then acquired new premises and replaced the Red Lion Hotel in the High Street. The new High Wycombe Woolworths store was officially opened by Miss United Kingdom on September 7, 1972.
In pictures: Kent s shopping centres through the years
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Updated: 12:44, 21 January 2021
With many people missing a day out at the shops due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we decided to raid the archive for a trip down memory lane looking at the county s vast selection of malls.
From huge complexes to smaller precincts, Kent is home to many a varied shopping centre.
Bluewater opened March 16, 1999
Many have changed over the years - whether by layout or the selection of stores on offer.
We start with the county s biggest shopping centre,
Bluewater, in Greenhithe.
It opened in March 1999 and rises out of a former chalk quarry among 50 metre-high cliffs - the same height as 10 double decker buses.
How Nottingham s high street has dramatically changed over the decades
Do you remember some of the old department stores?
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The old Nottingham Co-op store in Upper Parliament Street (Image: Tony Stocks)
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The store adopted the name Bournes before closing in 1983. The site is now occupied by Poundland.
Bourne and Hollingsworth.
C&A The shop had first appeared in Southampton in the September of 1936, but the building was destroyed in an air raid on the night of November 30, 1940. For almost all of the next seven years shoppers had to make do without C&A. The new store, opposite the Civic Centre and just a few minutes walk from the former Hants and Dorset bus station, boasted more than 20,000 sq ft of showroom space and employed 80 members of staff. With its huge, glass-fronted arcades stretching back beneath the canopied facade, the new store was an immediate hit with customers and soon a men s department was