Harrods

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Employer Antonia White
As a highly skilled copywriter she was paid £600 a year.
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998.
96
She kept working there almost all through her first pregnancy, and after an unhappy interval working for Harrods she went back to Crawfords...
Textual Production Mary Anne Barker
During her years on her New Zealand sheep station, from 1865 to 1868, MAB wrote lively, descriptive letters home to her younger and sole surviving sister Louisa Stewart (later Scott). She also kept detailed records...

Timeline

1849
Henry Charles Harrod took over the small grocery shop of a friend in Brompton Road, London; this was the birth of Harrods department store.
1885
Breaking with established department store practice, Harrods began to offer credit to select customers.
1889
Harrods (already a leading retail outlet) passed from family ownership to become a Limited Liability Company, thus beginning a trend which swept up most of the great department stores.
1898
Harrods unveiled its moving staircase (an early form of the escalator) to great publicity, astonishment, and delight.
March 1909
Harry Gordon Selfridge opened a department store on Oxford Street, London.