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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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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Floors-2-Go (category Carpet retailers of the United Kingdom)
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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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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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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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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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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Carpetbagger (redirect from Carpet-Bagger)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Battle of France (section Allied strategy)
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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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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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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Anglo-Iraqi War (redirect from Allied invasion of Iraq)
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 Gaylani who...
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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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defunct; former ICAO code: AAY AAW Austin Airways AUSTIN Canada defunct SM AAW Allied Airways United Kingdom defunct, taken over by British European Airways which...
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