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The Factory Shops Essex Ltd. 5. Family run Essex -based discount shop [ 1] Goodwins. c. 2010s. Yorkshire Trading Company. 4. North East and Yorkshire based multi price discount retailer that originally started life as a pound shop.
Poundland is a British variety store chain founded in 1990. It once sold most items at the single price of £1, including clearance items and proprietary brands. The first pilot store opened in December 1990 following numerous rejections by landlords who had reservations about allowing a single-price store to operate, fearing it could adversely affect the local competition.
Poundworld was a chain of British value variety stores that sold most of its items for £ 1. [ 1] It was founded in 1974 by Yorkshire -based father-and-son team Chris Edwards Sr. and Chris Edwards Jr. [ 2] In contrast to many high street retailers, [ 3] it maintained strong sales and growth during the global recession that started in 2007. [ 4 ...
The inscription ONE POUND appeared on all reverse designs. In common with non-commemorative £2 coins, the round £1 coin (except 2004–07 and the 2010–11 "capital cities" designs) had a mint mark: a small crosslet found on the milled edge that represents Llantrisant in South Wales, where the Royal Mint has been based since 1968. [22]
An art gallery in Seattle's International District preserves the façade and some features of Higo Variety Store, an independent Japanese-American five and ten. A variety store (also five and dime (historic), pound shop, or dollar store) is a retail store that sells general merchandise, such as apparel, auto parts, dry goods, toys, hardware ...
99p Store in Gosport 99p Store in Bromley. Nadir Lalani came to the UK in 1973 from Tanzania, having owned a cash and carry store in Mwanza. [11] Since moving to the UK he built up and sold two convenience store chains (including buying Whistlestop Discount Stores, a 27-strong chain which he sold in 2005 [12]) before moving into discount retailing, with intentions of handing the business over ...
British brass £1 coin and gold sovereign. Royal Bank of Scotland £1 note. Bank of England £1 note (demonetised) Egyptian LE 1 coin and note. Falklands £1 coin. Gibraltarian £1 coin. Guernsey £1 coin and note. Manx £1 coin.
The British shilling, abbreviated "1s" or "1/-", was a unit of currency and a denomination of sterling coinage worth ⁄ of one pound, or twelve pence. It was first minted in the reign of Henry VII as the testoon, and became known as the shilling, from the Old English scilling, [ 1] sometime in the mid-16th century. It circulated until 1990.