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    Allied Carpets was a small retail chain specialising in floor coverings, mainly carpets (80%) and then also laminate and wood flooring and curtains, in...
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  • department store chain Allied Carpets, British retailer Allied Commission, governance system set up after World War II Allied (film), 2016 romantic thriller...
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    expanded into Southern England during the 1970s and 1980s, and acquired Allied Carpets, 61 large Gateway Supermarkets and other businesses, such as MFI Group...
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    Carpetright (redirect from Harris Carpets)
    Carpetland and Allied Carpets. It acquired its first operations in Continental Europe in 2002, and in 2005 acquired May’s World of Carpets. In 2007, it...
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  • been to a dinner in Swansea where he was guest speaker. He then opened Allied Carpets stores in West Bromwich and Brierley Hill on the morning and early afternoon...
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  • Allied Carpets purchased 48 out of the 87 Gillows stores and the company subsequently became part of Allied Maples Group Ltd, which includes Allied Carpets...
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    Kingdom, established in 1999. In 2012, the company's affiliates took over Allied Carpets in a pre-pack administration deal. Floors-2-Go was founded in 1999 as...
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  • Queensway was a retailer in the United Kingdom that specialised in the sale of carpets and furniture. It was a pioneer of out of town shopping and one of the...
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    of the European ASCAP office. He also wrote advertising jingles for Allied Carpets, Asda and British Gas. Greenaway's son is Gavin Greenaway, a composer...
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    evening, the riot spread, with an Aldi supermarket and a branch of Allied Carpets also destroyed by fire, and widespread looting in nearby Wood Green...
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  • Allied is a 2016 romantic war drama thriller film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Steven Knight. It stars Brad Pitt as a Canadian intelligence...
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    battlefront: Allied Close Air Support in Europe, 1943–45 (1st ed.). London: F. Cass. p. 129. ISBN 0-7146-4680-6. "Crimes of War – Carpet or Area Bombing"...
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  • Waring & Gillow. It subsequently became part of Allied Maples Group Ltd, which included Allied Carpets when it was acquired by supermarket chain Asda in...
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  • O'Hare's ex-wife Rose, a bald woman who went "to Kenya with the bloke from Allied Carpets." They have released groundbreaking albums, such as The Onion Ring,...
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    CICM Missionaries and consecrated in 1936, the Cathedral survived the Allied carpet bombing of the city towards the end of the Second World War. It is the...
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    primary target for the Allied strategic bombing campaign, but was hit by an Allied bombing raid very late in the war, when Allied carpet bombing on 2 May 1945...
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  • which eventually destroyed two of Barrow's largest superstores (MFI and Allied Carpets). 2 January 2008 – Dozens of firefighters fight a large blaze in Barrow's...
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    post-war years, fearing they would loot and plunder the defeated South and be allied politically with the Radical Republicans. Sixty men from the North, including...
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  • Stephen Hobhouse's book Christ and our Enemies that did not condemn the Allied carpet bombing of Germany; he said that he was "not only non-pacifist but anti-pacifist"...
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    Moyzes and she survived a sinking when being hit by a bomb during the Allied carpet bombing of the Apollo refinery in 1944. There are plans to turn the...
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  • to and from a hospital in Germany through the chaos of day-and-night allied carpet bombing campaign. The final part of his Puma book deals with war on...
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  • Carpet was an early radar jamming apparatus developed by the Allies in 1942. It was installed on strategic bombers like the B-17 from late 1943 and used...
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  • from Russia. W. G. Sebald underlines German amnesia surrounding the Allied carpet bombings of 131 German cities and towns which turned many German cities...
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    Ardennes and then along the Somme valley, cutting off and surrounding the Allied units that had advanced into Belgium to meet the German armies there. British...
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    to press comparisons with, and to find context in, Stalinism or in Allied carpet bombing, or to otherwise deny the uniqueness what of Mann described...
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    1939. His last years were spent in seclusion: losing his fortune to Allied carpet bombing, stripped of his Romanian Academy membership by the communist...
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  • Dolland aka The Bat The Bat began his career as a criminal but eventually allied with Blake to fight the Criminals' Confederation The Union Jack (2nd Series)...
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  • the Allied offensive to break out of Normandy. They had advanced to the vicinity of the Lozon River west of St.-Lô by 25 July, when the Allied carpet bombing...
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    The Anglo-Iraqi War was a British-led Allied military campaign during the Second World War against the Kingdom of Iraq, then ruled by Rashid Ali al-Gaylani...
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    "Tedder Carpet". Later in the war Tedder took command of the Mediterranean Air Command and in that role was closely involved in the planning of the Allied invasion...
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