krus_aragon
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Am I right in thinking he started per-packaging it (rather than selling it in bulk, to be sold loose to customers), and then expanded his business into Tesco?
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Andy Pacer
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You're on the right lines, but the key to the answer is how it influenced the grocery retailer...
Andy Pacer
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Brilliant, well done!
DerekC
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Gave the founder of Tesco the idea of calling his company by his wife's initials? I heard that it was named after TESsa COhen, but maybe that's an urban myth.
Sorry - should have updated my screen! I am left behind!!
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I'm guessing Scotland. The 26 MPs I assume are SNP, Morrison's is perhaps the 6th largest supermarket originating in Scotland, and I have no idea about bridges on the Calder Valley route (being a southerner
)I'm guessing Scotland. The 26 MPs I assume are SNP, Morrison's is perhaps the 6th largest supermarket originating in Scotland, and I have no idea about bridges on the Calder Valley route (being a southerner
Im afraid that’s not correct in any respect
krus_aragon
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I reckon we're looking at co-operatives:
The Co-operative party (of the Labour and Co-operative Party)
The Co-op feels like it'd be around the sixth largest supermarket chain
... and I've no idea on the Calder Valley. Is there a Coopers Bridge or something like that?
The Co-operative party (of the Labour and Co-operative Party)
The Co-op feels like it'd be around the sixth largest supermarket chain
... and I've no idea on the Calder Valley. Is there a Coopers Bridge or something like that?
Andy Pacer
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There is a Cooper Bridge on the Huddersfield Broad Canal which is kind of the same area. I think Cooper Bridge is an area (or junction) rather than a bridge structure though so may not be relevant.
Marton
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Is there a Pioneers Bridge. Rochdale Pioneers being the first Co-op
I was thinking of the bridge by Sandbrook Park on the outskirts of Rochdale that has “Rochdale home of cooperation” painted on it. Is that the same bridge?
Obviously not a patch on the old railway bridge in Oldham that had “welcome to Oldham home of the tubular bandage” on it.
Anyway, the aisle is yours or one of those who got the first two parts correct. You can fight over it like stockpilers going after the last pack of Andrex
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I will pass
krus_aragon
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Maybe I should toddle down to Conwy and paint "welcome to Conwy, home of the tubular bridge"
I'll leave the floor open, thanks.
Any takers?
martinsh
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In the early days of printing the printing blocks for each letter were kept in separate boxes or cases. The one for capital letters was the upper one of the two.
martinsh
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Apart from Yorkshire (with its Riidings) which other English county (pre 1974) was divided into three for administrative purposes ? For bonus points name the three divisions
martinsh
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That's correct, so open floor
krus_aragon
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Following the county theme, in Wales, 1974 saw one new county formed by merging three existing shires, while another shire was split across three new counties.
What was the name of the new conjoined county, and what was the name of the old shire that was split apart? (Bonus points for naming all the parts.)
What was the name of the new conjoined county, and what was the name of the old shire that was split apart? (Bonus points for naming all the parts.)
xotGD
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Gwynedd and Glamorgan?
krus_aragon
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Glamorgan is the one that was split across three counties (Mid, South, and West Glamorgan), but Gwynedd was made up of parts of four shires: All of Anglesey and Caernarfonshire, plus most of Meirionyddshire and a bit of Denbighshire (in the Llanrwst area). I'm looking for a 1974 county that was exclusively made of three (entire) shires.
krus_aragon
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Closer, but some of Brecknockshire was allocated to other counties (e.g. Brynmawr and Penderyn).
krus_aragon
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I tried not to give the game away, by not mentioning which counties Brynmawr and Penderyn ended up in. But given that there were only eight post-1974 counties in Wales, three of which have been eliminated (and another three from Glamorgan), there's not many choices left!
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Dyfed?
krus_aragon
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That's the one. Formed as a straight-up merger of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. Ironically, in 1996, Dyfed was split up again into the three same constituents (though Cardiganshire promptly changed its name to Ceredigion).
As you got both the first and second parts of the question, the floor lies with you, xotGD...