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Apr 10, 2016 · British Home Stores, commonly known as ‘BHS’, was registered as a private company in London in April 1928. The exact circumstances of its foundation remain mysterious, as do the personalities involved, but the intention from the outset seems to have been to develop a chain of variety stores in major shopping centres.
British Home Stores was founded in 1928 by a group of U.S. entrepreneurs who wanted to follow the successful model set by Woolworths. They did not want go into direct competition with Woolworths, so set their highest price at a shilling.
After the Scottish shale oil industry reached its peak in the 19th century, the British government became increasingly concerned to find secure sources of fuel oil for the Royal Navy. This led to a nationwide search for onshore oil during the First World War and a modest discovery of oil at Hardstoft in Derbyshire.
Petroleum and Submarine Pipe-lines Act 1975 (c. 74), established the British National Oil Corporation; provisions about licences to search for and get petroleum and about submarine pipe-lines and refineries
UKOG is operating primarily in the Weald Basin, in South East England, which has a long tradition of oil and gas exploration. There are 13 producing sites in the Weald, some almost 30 years old. As described above, hydrocarbons were first produced in the Weald in the 19th century.
Apr 16, 2016 · At the end of 1939 British Home Stores (BHS) was operating 58 stores in England and Wales. Two stores were still under construction in the early war years and one of these – in Lewisham – was requisitioned and not released to BHS until 1950.
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Deeper tones helped hide the soot produced by oil lamps, which began to replace candles in the later eighteenth century. ‘I have seen houses almost filled with the smoke from lamps, and the stench of the oil’, one footman recollected.
