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The new store boasted a restaurant, a ladies hairdressers, millinery department and an amusement arcade, with early pin ball machines, in the basement. By 1927 the business had been incorporated and had expanded into neighbouring properties. It now occupied 115-123 High Street, Thornton Heath.
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