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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
Leeds City Varieties on Swan Street is one of the UK's oldest music halls. [35] The City Varieties was granted Heritage Lottery funding for refurbishment and restoration, [36] and closed in January 2009 and re-opened in September 2011. Frank Matcham's Empire Theatre on Briggate was demolished in the 1960s, its site is occupied by Harvey Nichols ...
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.
Flagship Fenwick store in Newcastle. Fenwick's began as a Mantle Maker and Furrier, founded in 1882 by John James Fenwick. Born in Richmond, North Yorkshire in 1846, [2] Fenwick had been a shop assistant in his father's grocer's shop, and an apprentice draper, but in 1881 or 1882 he opened his own shop in Newcastle.
The opening of Dundrum Town Centre in Dublin's suburbs saw the arrival of two more British stores, House of Fraser and Harvey Nichols. The Woolworth chain store had major presence from the early twentieth century until 1984, when its stores in Ireland closed their doors for the last time. [18]
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 ...
Leeds is the most popular shopping destination in West Yorkshire, probably Yorkshire and rivals Manchester having claim to Briggate, the Headrow, Trinity Leeds, Victoria Gate, the Victoria and Northern Quarters, the biggest indoor market in Europe and the White Rose Centre, as well as many 'first outside of London' labels such as Harvey Nichols ...