Why is Bluewater called Bluewater?
Why is Bluewater called Bluewater? Blue Circle owned the 240 acre site, and their quarry provided chalk for the builders of London. The idea for a shopping centre was muted by Godfrey Bradman's Shearwater shopping centre company, who approached Blue Circle to propose the building of a shopping complex on the quarry, and so Bluewater plc was born. Is Bluewater bigger than Westfield? The extension will give Bluewater more than 185,000 sq/m of retail space, making it only second biggest in the UK to the intu Metrocentre in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. The added retail space will make the centre...