Founded in 1838, which Edinburgh store was the oldest independent department store in the world until it became part of House of Fraser in 2005?
Department store to fly over the English Channel), and the first public demonstration of television by John Logie Baird took place in the department store in 1925. In Scotland, Jenners was founded by Charles Jenner and Charles Kennington and has maintained its position on Edinburgh's Princes Street since 1838. It lays claim to being the oldest independent department store in Scotland. In Northern Ireland, Austin's in Derry, was established as a department store in 1830, and according to some claims was the world's first department store. The domineering building measured and was five stories high with an Edwardian-style exterior. The Paris department
Department store suburbs saw the arrival of two more British stores, House of Fraser and Harvey Nichols. The Woolworth chain store had major presence from the early twentieth century until 1984, when its stores throughout the Republic of Ireland closed their doors for the last time. The oldest and largest department store chain in Israel is Hamashbir Lazarchan. Italy's most famous department stores are Coin, established in Mirano, Venice in 1926, and La Rinascente, founded in Milan in 1865 by Luigi and Ferdinando Bocconi. Some of the largest department stores in Japan are Daimaru (J. Front Retailing), Hankyu (H2O Retailing), Hanshin (H2O