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Middle of Kensington High Street. Kensington High Street is one of West London most popular shopping streets, with upmarket shops serving a wealthy area. [citation needed] From the late 19th century until the mid-1970s the street had three classic department stores: Barkers of Kensington, Derry & Toms and Pontings. Barkers bought Pontings in ...
Kensington Market was a three-story indoor market at 49/53 Kensington High Street, in the Kensington area of London, England. It opened in 1967. It opened in 1967. In the 1960s and 1970s, it catered to hippie and bohemian culture.
The building became a market known as Kensington Super Store, [14] before English Property Corporation redeveloped the site. The original building was pulled down and replaced by Pemberton House on Kensington High Street (1976–78) and Kensley House (1982–84) on Wright's Lane, both office blocks, while at the rear was built a block of flats called William Cobbett House.
The main entrance to Kensington Arcade which includes the entrance to High Street Kensington station. The Arcade was built as part of the redevelopment of High Street Kensington tube station by the Metropolitan Railway between 1906-07 from designs by their consultant architect, George Campbell Sherrin, with the neighbouring department stores, Pontings and Derry & Toms taking the store space.
Derry & Toms was a London department store that was founded in 1860 in Kensington High Street and was famous for its Roof Garden which opened in 1938. In 1973 the store was closed and became home to Big Biba, which closed in 1975. The site was developed into smaller stores and offices.
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Barkers of Kensington was a department store in Kensington High Street, Kensington, London. It began as a small drapery business, John Barker & Company, founded by John Barker and James Whitehead in 1870. Barkers grew rapidly to become one of London's largest and most well-known department stores.
Biba started as a mail order business before opening their first shop in Kensington, London. The business opened further shops before creating Big Biba inside the former Derry & Toms department store in 1974. To help fund the business shares were sold to Dorothy Perkins, whose parent British Land saw the business worth less than the property.