Shopping Gallery

Fortnum and Mason BL29135

Fortnum And Mason, 181 Piccadilly, Greater London. The entrance at the corner of Jermyn Street and Duke Street, with scaffolding visible during rebuilding of the Piccadilly frontage of the department store. The store was rebuilt between 1926 and 1928. The photograph was taken for the architectural practice of Wimperis, Simpson & Guthrie. Photographed by Bedford Lemere and Co in August 1927

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Cribbs Causeway 18722_08

Cribbs Causeway Shopping Centre, Bristol. Following the now traditional 'dumbell' design, The Mall at Cribbs Causeway opened in March 1998 and cost £200 million to construct. By using methods such as 'Customer Psychographic Cluster Group Analysis', owners of the site have been able to extract annual sales of over £300 million from visitors to the site. Photographed in February 2000

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'Tich' window display SAM01_04_0048

Two girls looking at a window display of Chad Valley Tich dolls, in the window of J J Samuels' stationery shop on Strand, London. Date range: 21st November 1931 - 24th November 1933. Tich was a comic strip character in the Daily Mirror. The comic was written by Frank Dowling and illustrated by 'Dart', and first appeared on 21 November 1931. The final Tich comic was published on 25 November 1933. The toys were produced by Chad Valley. In the early 20th century, J J Samuels had a shop at 371 Strand. By 1936, this had moved to 157 Strand

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