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The regeneration of Bristol and the implications for the Partnership
20/08/2014
New proposals for Bristol growth From its very opening, John Lewis Bristol did magnificently well. Bristol thrived and the branch wallowed ...
Construction
20/08/2014
Make way for Cribbs Causeway By the midpoint of 1996, the building of Cribbs Causeway was underway, and the new John ...
Closure
20/08/2014
Preparations for the transformation Finally, in the last week of March 1998, the time had come to move out. Although just ...
The grand opening of John Lewis Cribbs Causeway
20/08/2014
Worth waiting for On the 31st March 1998, ‘John Lewis Cribbs Causeway’ opened to the public for the very first time. ...
Humble beginnings
20/08/2014
Laceman William Wink The extraordinary story of ‘Knight and Lee’ actually begins in 1831. In this year, Mr William Wink began ...
Founding fathers Knight and Lee
20/08/2014
Attractive proposition By the 1880’s, Mr Wink’s shop was a highly attractive proposition for outsiders. In 1887, two such enterprising young ...
The early Twentieth Century
20/08/2014
Expansion down Palmerston Road By the early 1900’s, Knight and Lee was doing very nicely. In 1908, they bought a fishmonger’s shop ...
The Acquisition of Knight and Lee
20/08/2014
Knight and Lee; for those with good taste! The Partnership’s first expansion into the provinces occurred in 1933, with the Partnership’s ...
Towards the present day
20/08/2014
Changes afoot in Milton Keynes In 2004, both John Lewis and Waitrose celebrated 25 years in Milton Keynes. It was a ...
Knight and Lee: The War Years
20/08/2014
Portsmouth at risk The South of England suffered terribly during the Second World War. Portsmouth was a prime target for enemy ...
Brent Cross: Conception
20/08/2014
Plans for Partnership approved The first whisperings about a proposed department store in north west London, to be built at Brent ...
A recovery period
20/08/2014
Early Days
19/08/2014
From one small property… In 1864, William Pearce Jones ran away from his home in Caernarvonshire to London, where he hoped ...
1900-1945
19/08/2014
Incriminating Dr Crippen In 1906, Jones Brothers and Co Limited was formed. This switch to becoming a limited company would be ...
Jones Brothers: The Partnership Years 1940-1990
19/08/2014
Wartime Restrictions Jones Brothers was lucky enough to come through WW2 unscathed. There were however a number of restrictions on the ...
Robert Herne Bond, Humble Beginnings in Norwich
19/08/2014
Family business The business was founded in 1879 by Robert Herne Bond. Having outgrown the family business started in Chelmsford by ...
Early Twentieth Century
19/08/2014
Strong Bonds Bonds of Norwich had slipped comfortably into the 20th Century. Strong family foundations meant an incredibly strong platform on ...
The Post-War Years
19/08/2014
Shifting The ‘Cheap’ Image In the years following the war, Bonds focused on the rebuilding of the shop on the old ...
Bonds: Refurbishment and Extension
19/08/2014
The Partnership takeover of Bonds was a massive upheaval for both the staff and the customers, who had been very ...
Construction
19/08/2014
Flexible Format John Lewis Exeter would be the first of ten proposed flexible format stores to open nationwide. The new format ...
The grand opening of John Lewis Exeter
19/08/2014
Worth the wait John Lewis Exeter, the first of the Partnership’s flexible format shops, was opened on the 12th October 2012. ...
Planning
19/08/2014
Lifting Leicester John Lewis Leicester was the first new Partnership department store to open in over 3 years. Opening in September ...
Introduction
19/08/2014
The New Towns Project Milton Keynes was the ambitious product of a government initiative to create new towns, in order to ...
Construction
19/08/2014
Department store daring to be different Construction began on John Lewis Leicester in 2005. It was soon very obvious that the ...
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