Avonmouth Essays

  • Why The Fortunes Of Kings Weston House Changed Between 1700 And The Present Day

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    the view from the house is very different, you can see the built up council estates of Sea Mills and Lawrence Weston. Where in the 1700s you used to be able to look towards the River Severn and see countryside, today you see Avonmouth docks and the village of Avonmouth which has grown around the docks which is part of Bristol. On the site of the current house there used to be a Tudor mansion and the name Kings Weston came from the fact that it was a crown property. It was owned by Henry

  • The Reasons Why the Major Cities of Britain Were Bombed by the Germans in 1940-1

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    The Reasons Why the Major Cities of Britain Were Bombed by the Germans in 1940-1 Coventry was bombed it played a pivotal role in World War Two, as a munitions centre and target for German air raids. The city's character, architecture and population remain forever entwined with war events. In World War One, Coventry became established as a centre for the motor industry, a business which boomed with the war's reliance on transport. By the time war broke out again in 1939, many new factories

  • Identifying and Analysing the supply chain structure of Superdrug

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    (I) Background Information Incorporation and Brief history of Superdrug In this section, the history of Superdrug will be highlighted briefly in three separate periods. (a) 1961 - 1987 Beginning in 1961, Superdrug was established as a toiletry retailing business by Ronald and Peter Goldstein who both had experiences of several years in the grocery retailing industry. In 1964, Superdrug was embodied as Leading Supermarkets Limited and later in 1966 officially started to use its present

  • How John Lennon Made the Beatles More Popular than Jesus

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    Lennon to another guitarist, George Harrison, who was accepted as a member of the group without hesitation. The Quarrymen continued as before, with Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison joined by other young ... ... middle of paper ... ...The Beatles. Avonmouth: Parragon Book Service, 1994. Print. Gopnik, Adam. "A Point of View: Why Are the Beatles so Popular 50 Years On?" BBC News. BBC, 15 June 2012. Web. 12 Nov. 2013. Hogan, Randolph. "He Love They Take and Make: Beatles Beatles Bibliography." The New