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February 2023 – New piece for The Conversation on online retailing (see commentaries tab)
January 2023 – Roll over of some areas for new year, plus The Conversation piece on Christmas trading updates published (see commentaries tab) and main posts
December 2022 – End of year tidying up and re-arrangement, including link to EDAS podcast on places and towns (see presentations tab)
April 2022 -new journal article published (Journal Articles page) on Twenty-One Years of Going Shopping and Marketing History
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- UK Grocery Market Share 1997-2019
- Personal Announcement: FRSE
- Twenty One Years of UK Grocery Market Share
- London's Welsh Dairies: The Welsh Milk Trade
- Grocery Market Shares in Great Britain (GB) 1997-2022
- Discount Food Stores in the UK: Kwik Save and Shoprite
- Place Based Loyalty
- The Co-operative Group Results 2021
- Tesco Trails
- Woolies Five years On
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Tag Archives: Elephants
The architectural heritage of Montague Burton’s Art Deco shops
Anyone who follows me on Twitter will, over a number of years, probably have got fed up with pictures of storefronts and ghostsigns. A common theme in this has been the architecture that is being lost – something that this … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Burtons, Dublin, Halifax, Heritage, Historic Shops, Hull, Oxford Street, Places, Retail History, Uncategorized, Urban History
Tagged Abersytwyth, Architecture, Art Deco, Burtons, Design, Elephants, Foundation Stones, Halifax, Historic Shops, Hull, LaidbyMonty, Place Vandalism, Places, Retail Heritage, Retail History, Streetscapes, Swansea
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Of Cows and Elephants
During our recent weekend in London we somehow found ourselves at Conway Street having a coffee in the old Welsh dairy which has featured in this blog before. As my wife said, how did that happen? A weekend away and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Buildings, Burtons, Heritage, Historic Shops, History, London, MIlk, Retail History, Uncategorized, Urban History
Tagged Art Deco, Burtons, Elephants, Foundation Stones, Historic Shops, Lpndon, Markets, Milk trade, Retail History, Wales
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Halifax – with Elephants
When I was 10 months old my father ‘forsake the amateur code’ (copyright Welsh Rugby Union) and ‘went north’, joining the Halifax professional rugby league team. This was a life changing decision in many ways for his family; not least … Continue reading
Posted in Buildings, Burtons, Corporate History, Design, Ghost Signs, Halifax, Heritage, Historic Shops, Markets, Places, Public Realm, Regeneration, Retail History, Rugby League, Streetscapes, Town Centres, Towns, Uncategorized, Urban History
Tagged Buildings, Burtons, Culture, Elephants, Halifax, Heritage, Markets, Piece Hall, Rugby League, Town Centres, Woolworths
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