News about Edwin Booth

After being opened by a teenager over 175 years ago, Booths, also known as the 'Waitrose of the north,' flourished, but the beloved grocers now faces an uncertain future in the wake of a cost-of-living crisis. In the aftermath of inflation, the upmarket supermarket chain announced that it would not be closing down its 30,000 sq ft store in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, and that Asda would take its place. Edwin Henry Booth, a pioneer of British business savvy, opened The China House in Blackpool in 1847, when the tea merchant at 19 years old obtained a loan of £80, about £10,401 in today's money, to open his first shop, The China House.

Femail takes you inside one of New York City's most exclusive private social clubs that have been shrouded in secrecy since their inception in the Gilded Age. The Union Club (inset) is Manhattan's oldest private club that still prohibits female participation. It sparked a scandal during the Civil War. Dwight Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant, William Randolph Hearst, John Jacob Astor, and Cornelius Vanderbilt are among the notable figures of the years. Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, and Liza Minelli are among the famous actors to have jumped on players. It was established in 1888 by Edwin Booth, a well-known Shakespearian actor who was the older brother of the man who fired President Abraham Lincoln. The assassin's portrait is also on display in the club's upper living quarters. The Colony (inset) is NYC's oldest female-only group established by Astors, Morgans, and Whitneys. Husbands and visiting male guests were once relegated to 'the strangers room.' Later, as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's 50th Birthday at the clubhouse, he ordered four of his guests to be wiretapped. The River Club is so discreet and exclusive that it has forbidden the use of its name in the media, and it has refused to honor Gloria Vanderbilt, Richard Nixon, and Joan Crawford as members.