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Roys of Wroxham, dubbed the world's largest village store, was founded in Coltishall by Alfred Roy in 1895, with a second store opening in Hoveton in 1899.
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Roys and Wroxham
The area around Wroxham Bridge is a local shopping centre, mainly due to the presence of Roys of Wroxham – situated near Wroxham Bridge since 1899 and, since the 1930s, proud bearer of the accolade " world's largest village store ".
In fact, Roys of Wroxham is entirely situated on the Hoveton side of the river – as are the local post office and the Hotel Wroxham.
* Roys of Wroxham
Roys and was
The final report was published by the Carnegie Institution as Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico, by H. E. D. Pollock, Ralph L. Roys, A. L. Smith, and Tatiana Proskouriakoff ( 1962, Publication 619 ).
* On June 9, 2005, the Commission announced that “ Roys Poyiadjis, a former CEO of AremisSoft Corporation, which was a software company with offices in New Jersey, London, Cyprus, and India, agreed to final resolution of fraud charges brought against him by the Securities and Exchange Commission in October 2001.
After the project was anathemized by the Roman Church the former Maya collaborators collected and reconstructed as much as they could and assembled them into a loose collection of texts which is now known as the Books of Chilam Balam ( Roys 1933 ).
This era was inaugurated by one Thomas Welcome Roys.
Roys, while cruising south of Iceland in the 441-ton Hannibal, was able to kill a sulfurbottom ( blue whale ) with a Brown's bomb gun in 1855.
In 1863 Roys refitted the Reindeer and once again sailed to Iceland, but he damaged his rudder while off the coast of the island, and was only able to save one of the many whales he shot that season.
Roys was much more successful the following season of 1864, saving eleven of the twenty whales that were shot, in part because he was using stronger harpoons and better lines.
Again, Roys was met with by failure, having made fast to only one whale.
It was established in 1864 by renowned American whaler Thomas Welcome Roys and run by him and his workforce until 1866.
Roys and by
For Devils Lake by Barbara Page Roys ( 1998 ), and Along the Trails of Michemanetue, released by Cherry in 2009.
* Proskouriakoff, Tatiana ( 1962 ) Civic and religious structures at Mayapán, In “ Introduction ,” in Mayapán, Yucatan, Mexico, by Harry E. D. Pollock, Ralph L. Roys, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, and A. L. Smith, pp. 87 – 164.
They were joined by Roys, who chartered the 83-three-foot, 25-ton steamer Emma.
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" NDTV-ICICI loan chicanery saved Roys " provides details of how NDTV's major stake holders raised funds by misdeclaration of the value of shares in NDTV.
Roys and with
* Chumayel ( authoritative edition: Roys 1933 ; compare with Edmonson 1986 );
In 1861 Roys joined forces with the wealthy New York pyrotechnic manufacturer Gustavus Adolphus Lilliendahl in order to perfect his " whaling rocket ".
After his rockets were rebuilt, Roys and his crew set out in the Visionary, with whaleboats in tow astern, to search for rorquals.
Roys and Lilliendahl parted company at the end of the season, with Lilliendahl continuing on in Iceland for another year.
Roys and .
* Ralph L. Roys, The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel.
* Ralph L. Roys, Ritual of the Bacabs.
* Roys, Ralph ( 1967 ) The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel.
* Roys, Ralph L., Ritual of the Bacabs.
* Scholes, France V., and Ralph L. Roys, The Maya Chontal Indians of Acalan-Tixchel.
* Roys, Ralph L., The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel.
Roys owns much of the commercial property in the area.
Wroxham and village
Wroxham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.
On the northern side of the Bure is the village of Hoveton, often confused with Wroxham.
Wroxham village had at one time – for much of the 20th century – its own public house ( The Castle, in Norwich Road ), four village shops ( one in Castle Street and three in Norwich Road ) and a primary school ( in Church Lane ), all now closed.
However, Wroxham has almost merged with Hoveton – each village growing on one bank of the river – with much of the area's commercial activity developing in Hoveton.
Other local attractions nearby include Barton Broad boardwalk, Neatishead village, Ludham village, shopping in Hoveton & Wroxham.
* Wroxham village
Coltishall is a village ( population 1, 405 ) on the River Bure, west of Wroxham, in the English county of Norfolk, within the Norfolk Broads.
Yachts of the Norfolk Broads Sailing Club on Wroxham BroadWroxham Broad is on the River Bure near the village of Wroxham in Norfolk, England within The Broads National Park.
It is located within the Norfolk Broads, and immediately across the River Bure from the village of Wroxham.
Wroxham and was
Wroxham Bridge was rebuilt of brick and stone in 1619, replacing a bridge built in 1576 which itself replaced an earlier, probably wooden, structure.
Wroxham is sometimes called the " Capital of the Broads " and was the first centre on the Broads for boating holidays and excursions from the late nineteenth century, when expansion of the rail network had made access to the area easier.
A public library was built near Bridge Broad, a small broad near Wroxham Bridge, in the 1960s.
The station was originally intended to be on the Wroxham side of the river, but a change of plan resulted in it being sited in Hoveton ; however, it was misleadingly named " Wroxham Station " for many years.
It was changed to " Hoveton and Wroxham " in the early 1980s.
John Green of Wroxham was appointed as joint engineer in March 1779, and the new waterway finally opened in October 1779.
The Themelthorpe to Aylsham line was completed in 1893 by the Great Eastern Railway to provide a link to its other lines at Wroxham and County School railway station close to North Elmham.
Archibald moved the family again to Wroxham in Norfolk, c. 1927, where his debtors caught up with him and by 1930 he was appearing in Norfolk's bankruptcy court faced with debts of £ 3, 500.
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