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184:. It is the only department store to trade in the locality. Each of its four selling-floors holds a broad range of merchandise including clothing, accessories and cosmetics, furnishing, household and electrical goods. 'World of Food', a new food hall concept in House of Fraser stores (introduced at
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Vickers & Co, and by February 1872 a store for the sale of groceries was opened on the site. By 1873, the store offered stationery, drapery, fancy goods, tailoring, groceries, a chemist and even a guns department. The store proved too small for the growing business so the
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for military officers and their families during the nineteenth century. The society became a limited liability company in the 1930s and purchased multiple independent department stores during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1973, the Army and Navy Stores group was acquired by
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Turnham Green and Portsmouth suffering serious bomb damage, while its Plymouth depot was completely destroyed. Trading difficulties were further accentuated after the war when India gained independence in 1947. The last colonial store closed in
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The society still continued to expand in London, erecting a new preserved provisions factory in Coburg Road, and purchasing more property along
Victoria Street. The society offered an enormous illustrated price list which could be ordered by phone.
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The business continued to expand, and in 1881 the society purchased the remaining distillery and associated buildings. In the following months departments were opened covering the entire site. In addition, warehousing was moved to Tooley Street in
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saw trade suffer badly, but this was supplanted in part by a contract from the War Office. After the war, the society was hit by strikes by its staff, but it continued to develop its
Victoria Street site and by 1922 a new frontage had been added.
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In 1934, the society was incorporated into a limited company – Army & Navy Stores Ltd. The Army and Navy Stores
Limited 'General Price list 1935-36' listed showrooms and offices at 105 Victoria Street, Francis Street and Howick Place,
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The last surviving member of the original board, Captain Ernest Lewis, died on 3 April 1926. He was joint managing director and treasurer until he retired in July 1914 after 43 years with the society. One of his sons was
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By 1876, the business had again outgrown its premises. They leased more of the distillery from
Vickers, closed their warehouse in Johnson Place moving to a new location at Ranelagh Road in
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602:, formerly T C Dunning & Son; closed 2005.
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208:Victoria Store as House of Fraser on the right
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315:SW1. Depots were listed in Union Street,
1146:Pages from the store's catalogue 1939-40
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