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Lewis's Building, Liverpool Former Lewis's Department Store, Market Street, Manchester (as Primark, in 2008) Lewis's is an online retailer and homeware brand. It was also a chain of British department stores that operated from 1856 to 2010. The owners of Lewis's went into administration several times, including in 1991.
The Lewis's Building is a 20th-century Grade II listed building [1] located in Liverpool, England. Purpose-built as the flagship store for the now defunct Lewis's department store chain, the building was set to be redeveloped as part of redevelopment project Central Village .
Liverpool Resurgent (1956) by Jacob Epstein. Liverpool Resurgent is an artwork by Jacob Epstein, mounted above the main entrance to the former Lewis's department store building in Ranelagh Street, Liverpool. It comprises a large bronze statue and three relief panels.
The 39,000 m 2 (420,000 sq ft) nine-storey Lewis's building, which was Liverpool's most famous store for 154 years, closed its doors for the last time on 29 May 2010 to be redeveloped as part of the Central Village project. [9] In 2013, an apart hotel, Adagio opened in the former Lewis's building in the side facing Ranelagh Street. [11]
David Lewis (19 December 1823 – 4 December 1885), was a British merchant and philanthropist. The founder of Lewis's department store in Liverpool, in 1879 he conceived the idea of what is claimed to be the world's first Christmas grotto , entitled 'Christmas Fairyland'. [ 1 ]
Vergo Retail Ltd was a department store business based in Liverpool, England, founded in 2007.Vergo Retail ran 20 shops, consisting of nine department stores, including Lewis's of Liverpool, Robbs of Hexham, Joplings of Sunderland and Derrys of Plymouth and four others in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk; four Homemaker stores in Devon, four home and fashion stores in Essex and Suffolk; two home ...
The store was destroyed by fire in 1933, but was rebuilt by the following year. 1848 [554] [555] Leaveys Chatham [556] Legends and Wynn Skipton [557] [558] George Henry Lee: Liverpool: Bought by Selfridge Provincial Stores; acquired by John Lewis Partnership in 1940. Other location. Chester [190] Stanley J Lee Edgware [559] [560] William ...
The business further grew in 1961, when John Lewis purchased the department store next door, Bon Marche, from its owners the Liverpool Co-operative Society and merged it into George Henry Lee. Bon Marche had previously been formed in the late 19th century by David Lewis, of Lewis's, but had been sold as a failing business to the Co-op in the 1950s.