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J R Roberts Stores was opened in 1870 in Stratford, London as a drapery and furniture shop〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=St John's Stratford E15 - Timeline (1866-1881) )〕 at 96 Broadway,〔1896 Kelly Trade Directory〕 before expanding and becoming a full line department store covering 78-102 Broadway. In 1888, it is reported that J R Roberts opened the first Christmas Grotto in a UK department store.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Victorian values )〕 Later their Christmas fair were known for moving soldiers, sailors and toy figures.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Automaton - The Newham Story )〕 During the early part of the 20th century, the postcard artist Hermann Fleury Junior use to fit out the Christmas display for a fee of £200.〔cashewnut.me.uk/Geneology/HermannFleuryJunior.php〕 In 1895, Queen Mary Hospital at West Ham opened a new wing, which the two main wards were named after J R Roberts, as he had paid for the cost of the furntiture.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lost_Hospitals_of_London )〕 The business expanded in 1899 when they opened a second store 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Seax - Catalogue: D/BC 1/4/12/1587 Building plan: Addition to Messrs J.R. Roberts and Co.'s shop No. 12 Nelson steerrt Lwewis Frederick )〕 in Southend-on-Sea as a subsidiary (Company no. 00338672) of the main Stratford branch. It also announced that it would stop selling alcohol in its Stratford store as part of the Temperance movement.〔Otago Daily times 26/8/1899 page 8〕 In 1954, J R Roberts closed their Stratford store selling it to London Co-operative Society (who knocked down the old buildings and built a new department store between 1957-1962),〔http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42755〕 while the Southend branch was sold to another small department store chain Chiesmans (the Southend store became Army & Navy during the House of Fraser takeover, before becoming Dixons / Currys. It is currently a Morrisons Local). ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「J R Roberts Stores」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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