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Allders was an independent department store operating in the United Kingdom. The original store was established in 1862 in Croydon by Joshua Allder. In the second half of the 20th century, this parent store was developed into a chain of department stores across England and Wales.
Group of 155 stores trading in the UK, Republic of Ireland and Spain Elliotts Lymington: 1872 Elys Wimbledon: 1876 Owned by the Brixton based Morleys Group which operates seven other stores. The Emporium Maldon: 2004 Elphicks Farnham: 1881 [19] Eve & Ranshaw Louth: 1781 [20] Facy Henley-on-Thames [21] Fenwick: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1882 Group of ...
A notable takeover by the UDS group came in 1958 when Joseph Collier negotiated a takeover of the Allders department store in Croydon, [27] followed by Newcastle upon Tyne department store John Farnon. [28] The Lyons would eventually start to rebrand United Drapery Stores department store businesses under the Allders name during the 1970s and ...
During the 1990s and 2000s, TJ Hughes took over a number of premises formerly occupied by other retailers including Allders (Ipswich, Redditch), C&A (Glasgow, Romford and Hull), House of Fraser (Sheffield and Eastbourne) and Co-operative Group (Warrington, Bradford, Doncaster and Crawley). From 2009, expansion picked up again with the addition ...
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The store was added to the Allders group in the 1970s and continued to operate until Allders went into administration in 2005. [5] The building was subsequently broken up and sold, with the building split between a branch of Debenhams department store and TK Maxx retail. As of 9 June 2020, the Debenhams section of the building had been ...
In 1929, the Romford F.C. club was re-established and they took over the use of the Brooklands Stadium, joining the London League. [5] By 1975, the club had developed Brooklands considerably in anticipation of eventually being elected to the Football League and had large debts to show for it, and had to sell Brooklands in 1975 but remained there until 1977.
British Home Stores was founded in 1928 by a group of U.S. entrepreneurs [4] who wanted to follow the successful model set by Woolworths.They did not want go into direct competition with Woolworths, so set their highest price at a shilling.