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Bourne & Hollingsworth, known also in its latter days as Bournes was a large department store on the corner of Oxford Street and Berners Street. It was named after its founders, Walter William Bourne and Howard E Hollingsworth, brothers in law, who started the store in Westbourne Grove as a drapery store in 1894.^[1] The store then moved to the Oxford Street site (pictured) in 1902 (built in 1894)^[2] due to competition with Whiteleys,^[3] and by 1928 the store had been remodelled (by Slater & Moberley) in the Art Deco style.

Bourne & Hollingsworth became renowned for selling the best quality goods and for looking after their staff, providing accommodation at Warwickshire House on Gower Street for up to 600 female workers. Like much of Oxford Street, the store suffered bomb damage in 1940, however today much of the art deco façade still survives.^[4]

The 1954 comedy-drama film The Crowded Day, directed by John Guillermin, was partially shot inside Bourne & Hollingsworth to provide an authentic setting of a department store, which could not easily be achieved in a studio.^[5] The store's exterior was also used for some outside location shots, including the background of the film's opening title credit.^[6]

The business expanded opening a further store in Southampton in 1959,^[7] which later adopted the name Bournes after it was sold in 1979.^[8]

The store finally closed its doors in 1983.

The building was known as The Plaza Oxford Street (opened 1986 closed 2016), but was at one time the planned site for Richard Branson's Virgin Megastore.^[9]

In September 2018 the building reopened as the new flagship store of fashion and homewares retailer Next.

The name survives with Bourne & Hollingsworth Group as a basement bar in nearby Rathbone Place, named after the department store as the mother of the bar's owner worked there.^[10]

References

^ "Are you being served?". 11 June 2013.
^ "The Blitz: Store Wars". 6 September 2010 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
^ Richardson, John (25 June 2018). The Annals of London: A Year-by-year Record of a Thousand Years of History. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520227958 – via Google Books.
^ "Oxford Street history - In Pictures". Time Out London.
^ "BFI Screenonline: Crowded Day, The (1954)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
^ Tunstill, John & Brian; James, Simon; Wilkinson, Phil; Lovejoy, Simon (2015). "Film: Crowded Day, The". ReelStreets.com. Reel Streets – Worldwide Film Locations. p. 1. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
^ "Department store Bargate-street, Southampton for Bourne and Hollingsworth Ltd; architects, W H Saunders & Son, Department store Bargate-street, Southampton for Bourne and Hollingsworth Ltd; architects, W H Saunders & Son; Builder, 195(6029), 17 October 1958, pp 644-7". www.sopse.org.uk.
^ "Other Independent department Stores from the 1970s". www.philipsuter.co.uk.
^ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 9 November 1985.
^ "Bourne and Hollingsworth | I know this great little place". Archived from the original on 28 October 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.

External links

Webpage for Bourne & Hollingsworth bar

51°30′57.98″N 0°8′10.6″W / 51.5161056°N 0.136278°W / 51.5161056; -0.136278

[1] "Are you being served?". 11 June 2013.

[2] "The Blitz: Store Wars". 6 September 2010 – via news.bbc.co.uk.

[3] Richardson, John (25 June 2018). The Annals of London: A Year-by-year Record of a Thousand Years of History. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520227958 – via Google Books.

[4] "Oxford Street history - In Pictures". Time Out London.

[5] "BFI Screenonline: Crowded Day, The (1954)". www.screenonline.org.uk.

[6] Tunstill, John & Brian; James, Simon; Wilkinson, Phil; Lovejoy, Simon (2015). "Film: Crowded Day, The". ReelStreets.com. Reel Streets – Worldwide Film Locations. p. 1. Retrieved 27 November 2015.

[7] "Department store Bargate-street, Southampton for Bourne and Hollingsworth Ltd; architects, W H Saunders & Son, Department store Bargate-street, Southampton for Bourne and Hollingsworth Ltd; architects, W H Saunders & Son; Builder, 195(6029), 17 October 1958, pp 644-7". www.sopse.org.uk.

[8] "Other Independent department Stores from the 1970s". www.philipsuter.co.uk.

[9] Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 9 November 1985.

[10] "Bourne and Hollingsworth | I know this great little place". Archived from the original on 28 October 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.

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 [[File:Bourne & Hollingsworth photo.jpg|thumbnail|right|Photograph of Bourne & Hollingsworth, taken in the early 1920s]]
-'''Bourne and Hollingsworth''' was a large department store on the corner of Oxford Street and [[Berners Street]]. It was named after its founders, Walter William Bourne and Howard E Hollingsworth,brother in laws,  who started the store in [[Westbourne Grove]] as a drapery. The store then moved to the Oxford Street site (pictured) in 1902 (built in 1894)<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8937000/8937074.stm</ref> due to competion with [[Whiteleys]],<ref>http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0wUCjfE6Lk4C&pg=PA315&lpg=PA315&dq=bourne+and+hollingsworth+department+store&source=bl&ots=gEGuSd3WhV&sig=fFCbA6DCD25f8jGC9qR51hvXZD8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ao5PVP23IozD7galt4D4Bw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAzge#v=onepage&q=bourne%20and%20hollingsworth%20department%20store&f=false</ref> and by 1928 the store had been remodelled (by Slater & Moberley) in the Art Deco style.
+'''Bourne & Hollingsworth''', known also in its latter days as '''Bournes''' was a large department store on the corner of [[Oxford Street]] and [[Berners Street]]. It was named after its founders, Walter William Bourne and Howard E Hollingsworth, brothers in law, who started the store in [[Westbourne Grove]] as a drapery store in 1894.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cabbieblog.com/blog/are-you-being-served/|title=Are you being served?|date=11 June 2013}}</ref> The store then moved to the Oxford Street site (pictured) in 1902 (built in 1894)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8937000/8937074.stm|title=The Blitz: Store Wars|date=6 September 2010|publisher=|via=news.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> due to competition with [[Whiteleys]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wUCjfE6Lk4C&q=bourne+and+hollingsworth+department+store&pg=PA315|title=The Annals of London: A Year-by-year Record of a Thousand Years of History|first=John|last=Richardson|date=25 June 2018|publisher=University of California Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9780520227958}}</ref> and by 1928 the store had been remodelled (by Slater & Moberley) in the Art Deco style.
-Bourne and Hollingsworth became renowned for selling the best quality goods and for looking after their staff, providing accommodation at Warwickshire House on Gower Street for up to 600 female workers. Like much of Oxford Street, the store suffered bomb damage in 1940, however today much of the art deco facade still survives.<ref>http://www.timeout.com/london/shopping/history-of-oxford-street-in-pictures-6</ref>
+Bourne & Hollingsworth became renowned for selling the best quality goods and for looking after their staff, providing accommodation at Warwickshire House on Gower Street for up to 600 female workers. Like much of Oxford Street, the store suffered bomb damage in 1940, however today much of the art deco façade still survives.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/london/shopping/history-of-oxford-street-in-pictures-6|title=Oxford Street history - In Pictures|website=Time Out London}}</ref>
+[[File:A customer tries on a new hat in the millinery department of Bourne and Hollingsworth on London's Oxford Street in 1942. D6596.jpg|thumb|A customer tries on a new hat in the millinery department of Bourne & Hollingsworth in 1942]]
+The 1954 [[comedy-drama]] film ''[[The Crowded Day]]'', directed by [[John Guillermin]], was partially shot inside Bourne & Hollingsworth to provide an authentic setting of a [[department store]], which could not easily be achieved in a studio.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1408156/|title=BFI Screenonline: Crowded Day, The (1954)|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> The store's exterior was also used for some outside location shots, including the background of the film's opening title credit.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reelstreets.com/index.php/component/films/?task=view&id=2295&film_ref=crowded_day,_the&limitstart=0 |title=Film: Crowded Day, The |last1=Tunstill |first1=John & Brian |last2=James |first2=Simon |last3=Wilkinson |first3=Phil |last4=Lovejoy |first4=Simon |date=2015 |website=ReelStreets.com |publisher=Reel Streets – Worldwide Film Locations| page=1 |access-date=2015-11-27}}</ref>
+The business expanded opening a further store in [[Southampton]] in 1959,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_objectrecord_postsearch.htm&_IXFIRST_=25084&_IXMAXHITS_=1&m=quick_sform&tc1=b&s=6DRZAePiWNi|title=Department store Bargate-street, Southampton for Bourne and Hollingsworth Ltd; architects, W H Saunders & Son, Department store Bargate-street, Southampton for Bourne and Hollingsworth Ltd; architects, W H Saunders & Son; Builder, 195(6029), 17 October 1958, pp 644-7|website=www.sopse.org.uk}}</ref> which later adopted the name Bournes after it was sold in 1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.philipsuter.co.uk/Other_Independent_department_Stores_from_1970s.htm#BH|title=Other Independent department Stores from the 1970s|website=www.philipsuter.co.uk}}</ref>
-The 1954 comedy ‘The Crowded Day’ by John Guillermin was shot inside Bourne & Hollingsworth as to provide a realistic representation of retail which could not easily be atcheived in a studio.<ref>http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1408156/</ref>
+The store finally closed its doors in 1983.
-The business expanded opening a further store in [[Southampton]] in 1959<ref>http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_objectrecord_postsearch.htm&_IXFIRST_=25084&_IXMAXHITS_=1&m=quick_sform&tc1=b&s=6DRZAePiWNi</ref>, which later reverted to the name Bournes after it was sold in 1979. <ref>http://www.philipsuter.co.uk/Other_Independent_department_Stores_from_1970s.htm#BH</ref>
+The building was known as The Plaza Oxford Street (opened 1986 closed 2016), but was at one time the planned site for Richard Branson's [[Virgin Megastore]].<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hiQEAAAAMBAJ&q=bourne+and+hollingsworth+department+store%7C&pg=PT101 |title=Billboard |date=1985-11-09 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |language=en}}</ref>
-The store finally closed its doors in 1983.
+In September 2018 the building reopened as the new flagship store of fashion and homewares retailer [[Next plc|Next]].
-The building is now known as The Plaza Oxford Street (opened 1986), but was at one time the planned site for Richard Branson's [[Virgin Megastore]].<ref>http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hiQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT101&lpg=PT101&dq=bourne+and+hollingsworth+department+store&source=bl&ots=XKlG6OeB1H&sig=5J120XAB_4ccwxy6GxiZFGmUsUI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ao5PVP23IozD7galt4D4Bw&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBzge#v=onepage&q=bourne%20and%20hollingsworth%20department%20store&f=false| Billboard 9/11/1985</ref>
-The name "Bourne & Hollingsworth" survives as a basement bar in nearby Rathbone Place, named after the department store as the bar's owners mum worked there.<ref>http://www.greatlittleplace.com/place/bourne-and-hollingsworth</ref>
+The name survives with [[Bourne & Hollingsworth Group]] as a basement bar in nearby Rathbone Place, named after the department store as the mother of the bar's owner worked there.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.greatlittleplace.com/place/bourne-and-hollingsworth |title=Bourne and Hollingsworth &#124; I know this great little place |access-date=28 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028140710/http://www.greatlittleplace.com/place/bourne-and-hollingsworth |archive-date=28 October 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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