Department Store Collection

Are You Being Served TV Programme. Cast on set August 1977 Left To Right Miss Brahms ( Wendy Richard ) Mrs Slocombe ( Mollie Sugden) Mr Grainger ( Arthur Brough ), Mr Lucas ( Trevor Bannister )

Northbrook Street in Newbury, Berkshire. Newbury is to become a city. 19th March 1964

Rackhams, Birmingham. 20th January 1959

Interior of the Co-Op shop on Oxford Street, London, 6th January 1962

Damage to the Palm Court Restaurant, Selfridges, following an air raid attack which took place on 17th April. 20th April 1941

The Derby Co-Op store, East Stret, Derby seen here preparing for Christmas in the 1970s

Maggs and Co department Store on Queen Road, Bristol Circa 1950

Hedley, Young & Co, Blyths oldest and biggest family store, has been taken over by Allen and Company of South Shields. The firm, which first opened 98 years ago was bought out late last week for 40s

Bobby & Co department Store, The Parade, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. 2nd June 1967

Oxford Street, London. A busy scene with cars and pedestrians. Picture taken Monday 7th March 1932

Crowds outside D. H. Evans department store, Oxford Street, in March 1932
Crowds outside D.H. Evans department store, Oxford Street, in March 1932. Picture taken Monday 7th March 1932

Sunday trading is launched in Middlesbrough town centre. Ab Fab lookalikes celebrate with a shopping spree at Binns. 6th February 1998

January sales at Lewiss Department store in Manchester. 2nd January 1962

A window dresser sets about her task of creating a scene in one of the windows of Selfridges department store on Londons Oxford Street

Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed pictured at the Harrods sale. 7th July 1993

Cassius Clay aka (Muhammad Ali) at Austin Reeds in Londons Regent Street. Cassius was looking for a suit, but they hadn t one big enough around the chest and shoulders

Cassius Clay aka (Muhammad Ali) getting measured at Austin Reeds in Londons Regent Street. Cassius was looking for a suit, but they hadn t one big enough around the chest and shoulders

Young Verity met some old friends from Wind in the Willows when she got a sneak preview of the grotto at Rackhams, Birmingham, West Midlands. November 1987

Owen Owen department store in Broadgate, Coventry. Circa 1956

Broad Street, Reading, Berkshire. Heelas department store. 27th January 1975

Burgis & Colbourne Department Store, The Parade, Leamington Spa. 17th October 1968

The roof gardens at Derry and Toms in Kensington High Street, London. The gardens, 1 3/4 acres in extent, are very popular with tourists and residents, as well as shoppers

Escalator at Littlewoods Store in Caerphilly, South Wales, Tuesday 3rd May 1988. On 2nd May 1988, Natalie Horrell was snatched aged five months by a woman posing as a store detective

Are You Being Served TV Programme - cast members on comedy show based in the Menswear & Womenswear Departements of Grace Brothers Department Store April 1976

Mrs Slocombe (Actress Molly Sugden) seen here on the set of the film of the tv series " Are You Being Serve?" being given her vaccination for the staff holiday to Spain

A London branch of Debenhams. 25th November 1979

Queue for Debenhams sale, Teesside. 1976

Debenhams shop sign. 1978

The largest department store group in the country, Debenhams Ltd, who control 120 stores all over the country, started a " Back Britain"

Bomb damage to the Selfridges building in London. 27th April 1945

The mineral water machines in the GUM store in Moscow do a brisk trade. 1962

Rackhams, from St Philips Churchyard. 30th November 1958

A picture from the roof of Lewiss showing the new Rackhams building at the corner of Corporation Street, Bull Street and Temple Row, Birmingham. 8th May 1959

The new Rackhams building being constructed at the corner of Corporation Street, Bull Street and Temple Row, Birmingham. 8th July 1959

£100 suit at the Binns shop in Middlesbrough. 1975
£ 100 suit at the Binns shop in Middlesbrough. 1975

Binns shop in Middlesbrough. 1974

Shoppers in the Oxford Street branch of Marks & Spencer. 7th July 1966

21-year-old Lesley Chapman from Penge seen working behind the counter of the Oxford Street branch of Marks & Spencer. 7th July 1966

The management at Lewiss store, Liverpool, have received complaints about the shortness of mini dresses worn by their sales assistants in the Miss Selfridge shop for young people

Happy staff at Belfasts newest department store, Saturday 15th January 1966

Its the craziest tangle the police have ever had to sort out at as mothers and fathers left their children outside the new woolworths store shorty after its opening in Chelmsley Wood, Solihull

"Carry On"cast members Jack Douglas, Peter Butterworth
" Carry On" cast members Jack Douglas, Peter Butterworth and Barbara Windsor at Lewis s, Birmingham. 23rd August 1973

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, pictured during a visit to Birmingham, at a young peoples exhibition in Lewiss department store

Police patrolling outside Mackays department store on Commissioners Street in Cape Town. 4th February 1955

American actor Burt Reynolds opening the Harrods Sale. 7th July 1993

Christmas comes to Hull city centre as the illuminated trees on the canopy of a department store makes a fairyland of coloured lights. 12th December 1974

Hammonds Department Store on Paragon Square, Hull. Circa 1937

The toy department at the Co-Op store in East Street, Derby in the build up to Christmas. November 1985

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