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Landport Drapery Bazaar was a department store located on Commercial Road, Portsmouth. ==History== In 1870 Robert E Davies, the three time Mayor of Portsmouth opened a department store on what is now called Commercial Road (previously Union Road and Landport Road).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=R. E. Davies Landport Drapery Bazaar )〕 He called his new enterprise the Landport Drapery Bazaar after the district that the store was located in.〔Pubs of Portsmouth from Old Photographs by Ron Brown Section 5〕 The original store was destroyed by fire in 1908, and subsequently rebuilt.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Landport Drapery Bazaar Company )〕 However in 1941 the store received a direct hit from a German Bomber which left a giant crater in the middle of the store. The business however returned as part of the Portmouth rebuilding programme, with a new store within the re-constructed Town centre during the 1950s. But in 1965 the store was purchased by the United Drapery Stores and subsequently in 1982 the store was converted to an Allders.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=R. E. Davies Landport Drapery Bazaar )〕 The Allders store was sold in 2005 to Debenhams. 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「Landport Drapery Bazaar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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