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Rackhams in 1978. The Bradford store continued to operate within the House of Fraser business until 1995 when the store was closed, while Bingley & Doncaster were also closed. The last store in the Brown Muff empire to still be open as a House of Fraser store was in Skipton which closed in December 2019.
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Rackhams division of House of Fraser, with all stores being
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In 1905, Brown Muff & Co were incorporated as a private limited company, with Henry, Charles and
Frederic Muff and George and Richard Walker as shareholders. The business continued to expand with new departments including a Beauty Parlour opening in 1927. However during the 1930s
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