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Richard Bradbury. Richard Edward Bradbury CBE (born 4 February 1956), is a British retailer who was chief executive of River Island (2008–2011), [1] the high street fashion brand founded by Bernard Lewis with worldwide annual sales in excess of US$1 billion. [2]
Bernard Lewis (born 10 February 1926) is the English entrepreneur behind the River Island fashion brand and clothing chain. Early life [ edit ] He was born on 10 February 1926, and educated at the Jewish Free School , and Northern Polytechnic Institute .
51°26′43″N 0°19′29″W / . 51.4452°N 0.3246°W. / 51.4452; -0.3246. Eel Pie Island is an 8.9-acre (3.6 ha) island in the River Thames at Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is on the maintained minimum head of water above the only lock on the Tideway and is accessible by boat or from the left (generally ...
A river island is any exposed landmass surrounded by river water. Properly defined, it excludes shoals between seasonally varying flows and may exclude semi-coastal islands in river deltas such as Marajó . These islands result from changes in the course of a river. Such changes may be caused by interactions with a tributary, or by the opposing ...
The Churn /Thames' length at 229 miles (369 km) is therefore greater than the Severn 's length of 220 miles (354 km). Thus, the combined Churn/Thames river would top the list. Sue Owen et al., in their book on rivers, generally restrict the length to the parts that bear the same name. Thus the River Nene is quoted at 100 miles (160 km), but ...
There are 188 permanently inhabited islands in total: Isle of Man: 1. Republic of Ireland: 62 and a part of Ireland. United Kingdom: 123 plus Great Britain and a part of Ireland. England: 19 and a part of Great Britain. Northern Ireland: 1 and a part of Ireland. Scotland: 97 and a part of Great Britain. Wales: 6 and a part of Great Britain.
The Isle of Portland is a tied island, 6 kilometres (4 mi) long by 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi) wide, in the English Channel. [2] The southern tip, Portland Bill, lies 8 kilometres (5 mi) south of the resort of Weymouth, forming the southernmost point of the county of Dorset, England. A barrier beach called Chesil Beach joins Portland with mainland ...
This is a list of rivers of England, organised geographically and taken anti-clockwise around the English coast where the various rivers discharge into the surrounding seas, from the Solway Firth on the Scottish border to the Welsh Dee on the Welsh border, and again from the Wye on the Welsh border anti-clockwise to the Tweed on the Scottish border.