Final Curtain At Furnishings Firm
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on November 8, 2008
THE last South Yorkshire branch of Hellaby-based Rosebys soft furnishings group has been closed down by administrators.
The Parkgate store in Rotherham, where nine jobs have been lost, is among 58 stores being shut down. A further 77 stores have been sold to a new owner.
“But in difficult trading conditions the sale of a number of [...]
Parting the Iron Curtain
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on August 31, 2008
Mistrust and fear of a foreign power half a world away tainted everyday life, hanging over people like a dark storm cloud.
While politicians worked behind the scenes to both lessen tensions and get the upper hand on the Soviets, jazz musicians were spreading Americana throughout more than 35 countries in the former Soviet Union, Northern [...]
Oldcastle Glass(R) Sells Translucent Business
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on July 9, 2008
Oldcastle Glass(R) has reached an agreement to sell its translucent wall and skylight business to Major Industries, a market leader in the translucent daylighting industry. Under the terms of the sale, Major Industries will assume the translucent wall and skylight backlog, and provide warranty support for existing installations. The sale is expected to close by [...]
Unitized Curtain Walling Facade Specified for Complex Building
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on June 4, 2008
The building covers a constrained and challenging site, close to tram lines and railway tracks and oversailing two busy highways and the Bridgewater Canal. The specification of a unitized solution for the project will eliminate the need for scaffolding and the storage of cladding materials and glass handling on site – a major advantage for [...]
Pudsey singer to bring curtain down at Leeds City Varieties
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on May 15, 2008
Pudsey’s Lawrie Briggs has played Leeds City Varieties so often she is almost part of its fixtures and fittings.
Now the popular performer says she is proud to be singing at the former music hall for one last time before its multi-million pound refurbishment.
Her Varieties history dates back more than 20 years to when she appeared [...]
Curtain may not yet have fallen on theatre
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on May 11, 2008
Llewellyn Rhoe’s effort to establish Vancouver’s first professional theater company with its own venue ended in February when Arts Equity Onstage closed the doors to its Main Street Theatre.
But Rhoe is hoping for a second act.
He said former patrons have encouraged him to proceed with a 2008-09 season and resurrection may come now that Arts [...]
Ontario Cigarette display ban to go ahead despite uproar
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 20, 2008
Ontario smokers will soon have to thumb through a binder to pick the brand of their choice at convenience stores as the province ushers in a ban on cigarette displays which the government says is necessary to save lives despite growing concern among [...]
Special Brahms residents work in concert for savings
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 20, 2008
Sometime soon the Brahms Ave. bike club will emerge from hibernation with a barbecue for the 800 or so people who live in the street’s two social housing high-rise apartments.It will be the latest in a string of energy-saving, community-building events that two years ago led to a City of Toronto environmental prize and $5,000.After [...]
Housing 21 signs PPP care home contract with Walsall
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on April 20, 2008
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living This house not for mere mortals
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 20, 2008
East Hampton, N.Y.%26ndash;The house is off-limits to children, and adults are asked to sign a waiver when they enter. The main concern is the concrete floor, which rises and falls like the surface of a vast, bumpy chocolate chip cookie.But, for Arakawa, 71, [...]