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The business was founded by Benjamin Harvey as a linen shop in Knightsbridge in 1831. Harvey died in 1850, leaving the business in the care of his wife Anne, who went into partnership with Harvey's son-in-law, James Nichols, to form Harvey Nichols & Co. [2] In 1889, the existing space was demolished to make way for a new department store.
Purchased by Debenhams in 1961. Guildford store closed in 1968 to coincide with the opening of a new Plummer Roddis in the town. Other stores closed in the 1970s with Woking closing in 1983. 6 1961 [77] Goldbergs: Glasgow: 1908 Glasgow based group with stores in Scotland and one in England. 15 1990 Grant-Warden Walton on Thames
Fortnum & Mason plc (colloquially often shortened to just Fortnum's) is an upmarket department store in London, England.The main store is located at 181 Piccadilly in the St James's area of London, where it was established in 1707 by William Fortnum and Hugh Mason.
Founded by Benjamin Harvey as a linen shop within a house on the corner of Sloane Street and Knightsbridge. In 1991 Dickson Concepts purchased the business from the Burton Group, and expanded the business to 14 shops across the world.
The project is widely cited as an exemplar of successful and contextual urban regeneration, and in 1991 the full scheme was awarded both the Leeds Award for Architecture (with the stained glass canopy receiving an award individually, in addition) and the Civic Trust Award; in 2013 Victoria Quarter received another Leeds Architecture Award, for ...
Fenwick was an anchor department store for the 1976 opening of Brent Cross Shopping Centre in London, which was the first large out-of-town shopping centre in the UK. [8] A further store was opened in Oxford on the site of the F Cape & Co department store in 1978.
Briggate is the main shopping street where one can find many well-known British High Street stores, including Marks & Spencer, Costa Coffee, and Harvey Nichols. Many companies have several stores within Central Leeds and the wider city. Leeds is home to one of the largest indoor markets in Europe, [129] Leeds Kirkgate Market.
Trinity Leeds is a shopping and leisure centre in the city centre of Leeds, England, named after the adjacent 18th-century Holy Trinity Church. Developed by Land Securities and designed by Chapman Taylor , it opened on 21 March 2013, with over 130,000 recorded visitors on opening day.