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Wilberforce house, High Street, Hull. Wilberforce House is a British historic house museum, part of the Museums Quarter of Kingston-upon-Hull.It is the birthplace of social reformer William Wilberforce (1759–1833), who used his time as a member of Parliament to work for the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire.
Hammonds of Hull was a department store with the original business located in Hull before opening a further branch in Bridlington. The business was later bought by House of Fraser . As of September 2021, the building in Ferensway is being renovated to re-open to the public as an artisan food hall at ground level including space for independent ...
At this stage, it was the leading mail order business in the UK, with a single catalogue, Great Universal. A second catalogue, John England, was launched later in 1933. [3] The company set up a chain of department stores in a joint venture with American businessman Charley Nicholls called New Universal Stores. [13]
The furniture on display looks as inviting as the outdoors depicted in the panels. Furniture maker with 250 contemporary items. Tulp is a furniture maker with 250 contemporary outdoor furniture items.
Boyes, Hessle Road, Hull. In 1920 they returned to Hull, this time on Hessle Road. The company leased a building owned by Johnny Wardell, later buying the lease. [14] In 1927 Boyes bought a neighbouring property to extend the store and further extended the store in the 1950s. [15] Holderness Road
Both firms produced wicker and rattan furniture, and as these products became increasingly popular towards the end of the century, they became serious rivals. [7] In 1897 the companies merged as Heywood Brothers & Wakefield Company (this name was changed to Heywood-Wakefield Company in 1921), purchasing Washburn-Heywood Chair Company in 1916 ...
Utility Furniture - The 1943 Utility Furniture Catalogue with an explanation of Britain's Second World War Utility Furniture Scheme. ISBN 978-0-9552723-2-5. Reimer, Suzanne; Pinch, Philip (January 2013). "Geographies of the British government's wartime Utility furniture scheme, 1940–1945". Journal of Historical Geography (39): 99– 112.
A. H. Davenport and Company was a late 19th-century, early 20th-century American furniture manufacturer, cabinetmaker, and interior decoration firm. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it sold luxury items at its showrooms in Boston and New York City, and produced furniture and interiors for many notable buildings, including The White House.