Britain's first department store as it was in the 1890s. The blank window represents the original Whiteley's of 1863 - Whiteleys was London's first department store, located in the Bayswater area of London, England. The store's main entrance was located on Queensway. It is now a shopping centre - The original Whiteleys department store was created by William Whiteley, who started a drapery shop at 31 Westbourne Grove in 1863. By 1867 it had expanded to a row of shops containing 17 separate departments. The first store, described as 'an immense symposium of the arts and industries of the nation and of the world', was devastated in an enormous fire in 1897, one of the largest fires in London's history. ©TopFoto.

Britain's first department store as it was in the 1890s. The blank window represents the original Whiteley's of 1863 - Whiteleys was London's first department store, located in the Bayswater area of London, England. The store's main entrance was located on Queensway. It is now a shopping centre - The original Whiteleys department store was created by William Whiteley, who started a drapery shop at 31 Westbourne Grove in 1863. By 1867 it had expanded to a row of shops containing 17 separate departments. The first store, described as 'an immense symposium of the arts and industries of the nation and of the world', was devastated in an enormous fire in 1897, one of the largest fires in London's history. ©TopFoto

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