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The term "car boot sale" refers to the selling of items from a car's boot. Although a small proportion of sellers are professional traders selling goods, or indeed browsing for items to buy, most of the goods on sale are used personal possessions. Car boot sales are a way of attracting a large group of people in one place to recycle useful but ...
Garage sale in northern California Diverse items bought at a moving sale held in Boise, Idaho. A garage sale (also known as a yard sale, tag sale, moving sale and by many other names [1]) is an informal event for the sale of used goods by private individuals, in which sellers are not required to obtain business licenses or collect sales tax (though, in some jurisdictions, a permit may be ...
The food retail market has been dominated by the 'big four' supermarkets – Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons – who made up over three quarters of sector market share in 2010. Tesco is the largest retailer in Great Britain, with a market share of 27.5% at the end of 2022. [ a][ 1] However, discounters Lidl and Aldi have grown rapidly. [ 1]
Goods station in Lucerne, Switzerland Typical loading platform in goods station in small country town (abandoned). A goods station (also known as a goods yard or goods depot) or freight station is, in the widest sense, a railway station where, either exclusively or predominantly, goods (or freight), such as merchandise, parcels, and manufactured items, are loaded onto or unloaded off of ships ...
This was the goods yard to the former railway station, which had closed to traffic in 1977. [9] Trading days were Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from early morning until 2 pm. [10] Market traders sold fresh food, vintage and antique items, and household essentials. [11]
Lawn or Shop Equipment “Don’t get lawn or shop tools from yard sales. Things like shovels or rakes may be fine to buy, but any equipment that requires a battery, an outlet or gas power to run ...
Gallows Close goods yard. / 54.2785; -0.4117. Gallows Close goods yard was a freight transfer yard on the Scarborough and Whitby Railway in the town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. The yard was opened in 1899 to relieve pressure on the main station in Scarborough and to release space for passenger use.
Deptford Dockyard was an important naval dockyard and base at Deptford on the River Thames, operated by the Royal Navy from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It built and maintained warships for 350 years, and many significant events and ships have been associated with it. Founded by Henry VIII in 1513, the dockyard was the most ...