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The first phase consisted of the nine-and-a-half bays closest to the Duke Street corner, [11] a site of 250 feet (76 m) wide on Oxford Street by 175 feet (53 m) along Duke Street. [7] The floor heights averaged 15 feet (4.6 m), and the initial structure contained nine passenger lifts, two service lifts and six staircases.
In 1928 Gamages signed a lease for 489–497 Oxford Street from the Duke of Westminster, and set about building a new store with residential accommodation under architects C. S. and E. M. Joseph, with input from the Duke's chosen architect for his estate, Sir Edwin Lutyens. A new company was set up, Gamages (West End) Limited, for the expansion ...
Selfridges Building, Birmingham. Selfridge stores are known for architectural innovation and excellence, and are tourist destinations in their own right. [38] The original London store was designed by Daniel Burnham, who also created the Marshall Field's main store in his home town of Chicago.
Check out these images of malls from the 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, and 1950s. Your hometown mall may be here. ... Hill Street Shopping Center, 1982. This photograph of the Hill Street Shopping Center ...
Bourne & Hollingsworth, known also in its latter days as Bournes was a large department store on the corner of Oxford Street and Berners Street. It was named after its founders, Walter William Bourne and Howard E Hollingsworth, brothers in law, who started the store in Westbourne Grove as a drapery store in 1894. [ 1 ]
The downtown Main Street district in Columbiana hosts a concert series, nightlife, and sporting events, in addition to unique shopping, and transforms for Christmas and other major holidays ...
Peter Robinson was a chain of department stores with its flagship store being situated at Oxford Circus, London. Founded in 1833 as a drapery, Robinson bought up nearby shops on Oxford Street to create a department store. The Topshop chain debuted in 1964 as a section in a Peter Robinson branch.
The former Harrods group store D H Evans on Oxford Street, London was re-branded as House of Fraser in 2001 and became the chain's flagship store. [2] In 2005, the group acquired Jenners (£46m), and Beatties (£69m). In 2006, the firm was acquired by a consortium of investors (Highland Group Holdings) including Icelandic based Landsbanki (35% ...