For it was here that Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna opened their first newsstand in 1792 as part a business that would become WH Smith. Today there is no evidence of their stall on the road ...

John Walton Smith came tantalizingly close to winning a gold medal at the Olympics. But fate intervened. A track star, Smith was ranked No. 1 in the world in the early 1970s. He broke the record in ...

In selling off its high street branches, the retail giant is going back to its Victorian roots in transport hubs.

However, Brits have been criticising the “entirely made up” rebrand name as “cynical and soulless” (the original name was based on its founder’s name, Henry Walton Smith, who established ...

Walton Northington Smith, Jr. died April 23, 2025, surrounded by his family. Walton was born May 4, 1940, in Clarksville, TN, to Walton N. Smith, Sr. and Mary Mock Smith. He graduated from ...

Here the PA news agency looks at the history of WH Smith as it became a mainstay of UK high streets. Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna first established WH Smith in 1792 in Little Grosvenor ...