Famous department stores from 1707
Dates of the establishment of a selection of early department stores
(Partnership branches, past and present, are shown in bold)
1707 Fortnum & Mason, Piccadilly
1790 Dickens & Smith (later Dickens and Jones) Oxford Street
1804 John Townsend, Nottingham (later Jessops now JL Nottingham)
1810 John Harris Heal, Rathbone (later Tottenham Court Road)
1812 Swan & Edgar, Piccadilly
1813 Mrs M Caley, Windsor
1813 Clark & Debenham, Wigmore Street
1813 Benjamin Harvey, Knightsbridge (later Harvey Nichols)
1817 Shoolbreds, Tottenham Court Road
1831 William Wink, Southsea (later Knight & Lee)
1832 Lilley & Skinner, Paddington Green
1832 Townsend & Daft, Nottingham (later Jessops 1860 and now JL Nottingham)
1833 Peter Robinson, Oxford Street
1836 Kendall, Milne & Faulkner, Manchester
1837 Marshall & Wilson (later Marshall & Snelgrove 1848)
1837 Daniel Neal, Portman estate
1838 Bainbridge, Newcastle (now JL Newcastle)
1840 Robert Sayle, Cambridge (now JL Cambridge)
1842 Maples, Tottenham Court Road
1845 Cole Brothers, Sheffield (now JL Sheffield)
1849 Henry Harrod, Brompton Road, Knightsbridge
1851 G Pratt, Streatham
1852 Bon Marche, Paris
1853 George & Henry Lee, Liverpool (now JL Liverpool)
1854 John Heelas, Reading (now JL Reading)
1856 Thomas Burberry, Basingstoke
1856 Lewis’s of Liverpool
1858 Jolly’s of Bath
1861 Morris & Co
1862 Derry & Toms, Kensington High Street
1863 William Whitely, Westbourne Grove
1864 John Lewis, Oxford Street
1867 Jones Brothers, Holloway
1867 Bentalls, Kingston
1870 John Barker, Kensington High Street
1870 Matthews, Watford (later Trewins and now JL Watford)
1871 Peter Jones, Sloane Square
1871 Army & Navy Co-operative Society
1873 Pontings, Kensington High Street
1873 William Owen, Westbourne Grove
1875 Liberty’s, Regent Street
1877 Lewis’s Bon Marche, Liverpool
1877 Bon Marche, Brixton
1879 D H Evans, Oxford Street
1882 Fenwicks, Newcastle
1891 Fenwick’s, New Bond Street
1894 Bourne & Hollingsworth, Westbourne Grove (1902 Oxford Street)
1900 John Barnes, Hampstead
1909 Selfridges, Oxford Street
1929 John Lewis Partnership
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