Market Street, Bainbridge's Department Store
Market Street, Bainbridge's Department Store
HER Number
12735
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Market Street, Bainbridge's Department Store
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Shop
Site Type: Specific
Department Store
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
In 1838 Market Street included Emerson Muschamp's drapers and fashion shop. In 1849 takings were recorded by department possibly making the premises England's first department store.
Easting
424900
Northing
564300
Grid Reference
NZ424900564300
Sources
Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, page 18; "The world’s oldest department store?". The history of John Lewis Newcastle. John Lewis Partnership. http://www.johnlewis.com/Shops/DSTemplate.aspx?Id=18; Anne Pimlott Baker, ‘Bainbridge, Emerson Muschamp (1817–1892)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; Business as usual as era comes to an end, The Journal 14 Sept 2002; Wikipedia; Newcastle upon Tyne City Libraries & Arts, 1984, Gone…But not Forgotten 7 - Shops and Shopping, 14