Spar is a Dutch food retail chain found in forty-six countries across Europe, Asia, and Africa. Spar is one of the United Kingdom's leading convenience store brands and has more franchises there than McDonald's. Spar was originally called DESPAR, an acronym for the Dutch phrase "Door Eendrachtig Samenwerken Profitereen Allen Regelmatig" which translates to "through united co-operation everyone regularly profits".
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Margate is a town located by the see along the southeat coast of England. In the past, it was once a small fishing village, however it has grown to become a seaside resort. It is mentioned in The History of Mary Prince, in which Mary Prince accompanied the woman she was of service to (Mrs. Forsyth) to visit Margate after being with her for six months. Nonetheless, soon after, she was no longer of service to Mrs. Forsyth and was out of work.
Spar is a Dutch food retail chain found in forty-six countries across Europe, Asia, and Africa. Spar is one of the United Kingdom's leading convenience store brands and has more franchises there than McDonald's. Spar was originally called DESPAR, an acronym for the Dutch phrase "Door Eendrachtig Samenwerken Profitereen Allen Regelmatig" which translates to "through united co-operation everyone regularly profits".
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Breton Cathedral is a cathedral under the Anglican Church of Wales, located in the market town of Brecon, Powys, mid-Wales. It is widely regarded as one of the country's finest buildings. It is thought to be built upon the site of an earlier Celtic church, converted into the Benedictine Priory of St John the Evangelist by the Normans and at the dissolution of the monasteries in 1538 it became Brecon’s Parish Church. It finally became a Cathedral in 1923.
The Golden Road is a trail about 7.4 miles long located in Wales. The trail features pieces of history dating back to the Broze Age and Neolithic Period.
Leigh Street is located in Bloomsbury, roughly 2 miles from the center of the city of London. Bloomsbury is in the county of Greater London. Historically, Leigh Street had existed at least as far back as the 19th century, where it is mentioned in The History of Mary Prince. In Mary Prince's narrative, it is where she first lives upon arriving in England. Mary Prince says, "After that, when we came up to live in Leigh Street" (Prince). Today, Leigh Street is a bustling urban center filled with shops and flats.
Hatton Garden is a street and commercial district in the borough of Camden in London. The area is named for Sir Christopher Hatton, a wealthy man who lived in a mansion there and was favored by Queen Elizabeth I. The area has also been home to some of London's most notorious robberies, including a jewel heist in the 1990's that remains London's biggest gem heist. The area is known to be the "center of Britain's jewelry trade," and attracts many high-end shops and wealthy shoppers for that reason.
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Grassholm is a small island off the southwest coast of Wales. Presently, it is uninhabited and houses the National Nature Reserve — a crucial breeding site for gannets. An abundance of marine life, especially porpoises and bottlenose dolphins, inhabit the adjacent waters. Unfortunately, the island suffers from an influx of marine plastics brought to the island by breeding gannets. The gannets mistakenly identify floating plastic as seaweed and use it as nesting material.
Winthorps Platation in Antigua was a sugar mill plantation that was established with the arrival of Barbadian-born British soldier, plantation and slave owner Christopher Codrington. In the 1800s, Winthorps contained 231 acres and housed 153 enslaved peoples. This plantation was also unique because its first enslaved peoples were American Indians forced from Massachusetts to work in the Caribbean by the original settlers of Red Hill Farm in New England.
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The Vulcan is a hotel located in Cardiff within the suburb of Adamsdown. It is both a hotel and a public house, or pub for short. It was built in 1853, and its name is the same as the Roman god of fire, used to reference nearby ironworks of the day. Though there were plans to demolish it in 2009, it has since been preserved as a historic public house in Cardiff.
