Dickins and Jones
of Regent street, London - department store
1790 Dickins and Smith opened a shop at 54, Oxford Street, at the sign of the Golden Lion.
1830 The shop was renamed Dickins, Sons and Stevens
1835 Moved its premises to Numbers 232 and 234 in the newly built Regent Street.
1855 Partnership change. '...the Partnership lately subsisting between us the undersigned, Thomas Dickins, Joseph Stevens, and Charles John Dickins, as Linen drapers, at No. 232, Regent-street, in the county of Middlesex, under the style or firm of Dickins, Stevens, and Dickins, has been as on and from the 30th day of June, 1855, dissolved by mutual consent; and that by the like consent all debts due from or to our late firm will be paid and received by the undersigned Thomas Dickins and Charles John Dickins, by whom the said business will in future be carried on...'[1]
1866 Partnership change. '... the Partnership hitherto subsisting between us the undersigned, Charles John Dickins, Henry Francis Dickins, John Jones, and Jonathan William Morris, Linen Drapers, carrying on business at No. 232, Regent-street, in the county of Middlesex, under the style or firm of C. and H. Dickins and Jones, has been dissolved by mutual consent, so far as concerns the said Jonathan William Morris, as from the 1st day of January, 1866 ; and that all debts due to and by the said partnership will be received and paid by the undersigned Charles John Dickins, Henry Francis Dickins, and John Jones...'[2]
1900 Share issue. Directors are: Charles Thomas Dickins; Charles John Dickins; Henry Francis Dickins, Frederick Albert Dickins; John Prichard Jones, and Vernon W. F. Dickins.[3]
1914 Silk Mercers, Linen and Lace Warehousemen, and General Drapers, 226 to 244, Regent Street; 26 and 26A to 33, Argyll Street; and 6, 7, and 8, Little Argyll Street, London, W.; and 9, Rue du Faubourg Poissonniere, Paris. Established in 1803. The leading features of the business are Household Linens, Laces, Silks, Costumes, Mantles, Furs, Millinery, Lingerie, Boots, &c. Its departments include everything appertaining to ladies' dress. The business premises cover about an acre of ground in the finest shopping centre of the world. Staff: About 1,000.
1914 Acquired by Harrods
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:13 July 1855 Issue:21745 Page:2717
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:20 March 1866 Issue:23086 Page:1932
- ↑ St James's Gazette - Saturday 14 July 1900