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Fortnum & MasonThe Fortnum and Mason lettering sign above the door of the famous store, selling luxury goods of all description, Piccadilly, London. Date: 1960s
Frederick Gorringes, London Department StoreThe premises of Frederick Gorringes Ltd. - Buckingham Palace Road, London. A fine Department Store, opened in the early 1900s and closed sometime after 1960
Blythe House - Post Office Savings Bank, West KensingtonBlythe House, 23 Blythe Road, West Kensington - originally built as the headquarters of the Post Office Savings Bank (as shown on this card)
Derry and Toms PosterPoster for Derry & Toms department store, Kensington High Street, London
Rubans de Paris - Corner of Maddox Street / St George StreetRubans de Paris (Milliner and Draper) - Corner of Maddox Street (39a) / St George Street, London. Date: 1930s
Bourne & Hollingsworth, Oxford Street, LondonBourne & Hollingsworth department store, Oxford Street, London. Date: circa 1920
Castle street, Arncroach, Fife, ScotlandCastle Street, Arncroach, Fife, Scotland. The newspaper headlines detail a fatal rail crash, although this has not been so far identified precisely. Date: circa 1910s
Main Street, Salisbury, North Carolina, USA. Date: circa 1905
Fortnum & Masons Christmas Box for soldiers, WW1Advertisement for quintessential London department store, Fortnum & Mason, in particular their Thirty Shilling Xmas Box of selected provisions which could be sent to the front for lucky soldiers
Opening of Whiteleys department store, 1911Two pictures reporting on the opening of Whiteleys department store in Bayswater, West London in at the end of November 1911
Cans of Spam 1940SCanned Spam luncheon meat, priced at 1 4D (one shilling and four pence in old money), on a shelf in a grocery store
HARRODS 1953A large expensive car approaches the Knightsbridge store, which is now somewhat larger than the original grocers shop of 1849
Senate House (University of London) from Store Street. Date: 1938
Chinatown Shop, 1960SLoon Fung Chinese general provision store, probably in Chinatown, central London. Date: 1960s
Bank and shops, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USAWyoming Valley Trust Company and Second National Bank (left) and Jonas Longs Sons department store, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: circa 1907
High Street, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USAHigh Street viewed from City Hall, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA. Date: 1923
Biba move to Kensington Church StreetA highly publicised moving day for the Biba boutique of Barbara Hulanicki as around 60 models and well-known sixties personalities help to move the shop from its original Abingdon Road location to
Street scene with shops, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid WalesA street scene with shops, in Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales. The large corner shop is Bells grocery store, decorated with flags, perhaps to celebrate Empire Day (24 May)
John Lewis, founder of the department storeJohn Lewis (1836 - 1928), founder of John Lewis department store on Oxford Street, London
Marshall & SnelgroveThe Marshall & Snelgrove department store on Oxford Street, London
Poster advertising Pollards Storefitters, showing workmen busy with their carpentry. 20th century
Selfridges Exterior 30SAn exterior view of Selfridges department store on Londons Oxford Street
Harrods ExteriorAn exterior view of Harrods, London Date: circa 1900
East Main Street, Chanute, Kansas, USAView of East Main Street, Chanute, Kansas, USA. Date: circa 1920
Sainsburys Shop 1914The store of J Sainsbury - Purveyors of High Class Provisions
Tuscon, Arizona - Indian Blanket DepartmentUSA - Tuscon, Arizona - Indian blanket Department of R. Rasnessens Curio Store
Shoolbred Store, LondonShoolbred department store, Tottenham Court Road, London
Picture of a gin shop or dram shopSlide showing a picture of a very ornate spirit store or gin shop, called The Angel. Part of Box 366. Relates to the set of slides 2012.392 to 2012.402 Date: circa 1900
Advertising card for Singer Sewing Machines. One boy is so entranced by the new Singer in the shop window, he is unaware his friend is pinching some of the berries from his basket! However
Montreal Pharmacy, Canada. Allegedly (according to this card) the largest (and most luxiously appointed) of its kind in the world!
Trade catalogue for copper moulds with tin lining 1911Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing round fluted copper moulds with tin inside. Date: 1911
Harrods toy department, rocking horses, 1922A uniform display of wooden rocking horses and smaller toy horses on wheels in the Harrods toy department, Christmas 1922. Date: 1922
The shops on Mill Street, Alloa, Scotland. The Book Seller and Stationers shop of this postcards publisher (Walter Thorburn & Co.) can be seen on the left. circa 1910s
Court Oak Road, Harborne, Birmingham, West Midlands, with a shop and Post Office on the corner of Earls Court Road. Date: circa 1900s
Nelson Drug Company Store, Dowagiac, Michigan, USAGood Drug Men - Nelson Drug Company Store, Dowagiac, Michigan, USA. This store appears to sell absolutely everything, including postcards and postage stamps! Date: circa 1920s
Curio store, Cairo, Egypt, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s
Algerian Coffee Store - Soho, London. Date: 1973
D H Evans, Oxford Street, LondonD H Evans department store, Oxford Street, London. circa 1910s
Advert for Treasure Cot baby specialises 1930Treasure Cot store devoted to mothers babies and children, with a selection of baby clothing, robe, dainty long flannel gown, shawl and a hand knitted carrying cape
Drake & Mount Ltd shopfront - Pet Food StoreDrake & Mount Ltd, High Street, Bracknell - shopfront - Pet Food Store Date: mid 1930s
Back cover of William Tarn and Co.s Illustrated CatalogueWilliam Tarn and Co.s Illustrated Catalogue, containing 202 pages including the front and back covers, with black and white and colour illustrations including designs for ceilings and dados
Grocery store in Cairo, EgyptGrocery store at a street in Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1908
Shops at Caledonian Road, North London. Date: circa 1905
A pair of rich girls off shopping - passing an Etam Store - their chauffeur follows their progress down the street just to be sure... Date: circa late 1940s
Georgian store, and Circassian and Ingush man.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840
A Fountain Pen Repair Shop - Indianapolis, Indiana, USAA Fountain Pen Repair Shop - The Pen Shop - at 112 Monument Circle, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Date: 1940
Advertisement for Charles Baker & Co.s Stores Ltd. - Gentlemen & Boys high-class clothing & outfitting - " Opened to keep pace with the Civil Service Stores" circa 1890s