If I was a television scriptwriter, I would follows in the footsteps of Andrew Wynford Davies involved with the popular "Mr. Selfridge," first televised in 2013.
Department stores have always been popular and often considered "a bit of a treat" for people who lunch or enjoy afternoon tea.
Names to remember in the UK are many. Most of them started as drapers and expanded. H. Binns Son and Co. Ltd. was incoporated in 1897 and went on to produce stores in Sunderland, Darlington, West Hartlepool, Middlesborough, Newcastle upon Tyne, South Shields, Grimsby, Carlisle and Hull in England. In Scotland, stores appeared in Dumfries and Edinburgh. House of Fraser took over Binns in 1953.
There was Featherstones of Rochester, Keddies in Southend which opened in 1892 and went into liquidation in 1996. Most large towns had the department centre at the core of its shopping areas.
Do you remember Marshall and Snelgrove? It is now part of the Debenhams Group.
John Lewis is 150 years old this year. John Lewis himself a draper, found a job in Oxford Circus with another draper, Peter Robinson. In 1864 John set up his own shop in Oxford Street selling ribbons and bows. Around 1905 John purchased Peter Jones in Sloane Square, Chelsea.
Charles Harrod, aged 25, set up his business in Southwark back in 1824. He too listed the business as a draper and haberdasher. Customers using the escalator in 1898 at Brompton Road were offered a brandy at the top, to help with their "ordeal."
France boasts Galeries LaFayette and Printemps.
Spain has Corte Ingles
Think of New York and Macy's, Bloomingdale's and Barneys come to mind.
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