Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,675 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Peter Jones

From Graces Guide

Peter Jones is a large department store in central London

The shop is named after Peter Rees Jones. After serving an apprenticeship with a draper in Cardigan, Jones moved to London and established a small shop in Marylebone Lane. He then moved to central London, and in 1877, he moved to 4–6 King's Road, the current site of the store.

1908 Directors: J. Lewis (Chairman), H. M. Baker, F. Ford (Managing Director), and J. S. Lewis. Secretary: W. G. Pike. Office: 31, Symons Street, Sloane Square, S.W.— The company was registered May 28, 1900, to take over the business of general draper and outfitter of Mr. Peter Jones.

After a period of troubled trading and Jones' death, the store was purchased by John Lewis of the Oxford Street store, who handed it over to his son John Spedan Lewis in 1914

Part of the John Lewis Partnership

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