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Palmers Department Store is an independent and family-run department store located in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. The company boasts that it is the 'longest established independent department store in the country'.〔http://www.palmerstores.com/about-palmers/〕 ==History== Palmers can trace its history back to June 1837〔http://www.palmerstores.com/stores/great-yarmouth/〕 when Garwood Burton Palmer opened a small linens and drapery shop in Great Yarmouth Market Place.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.gytcp.co.uk/great-yarmouth/info.php?refnum=124 )〕 In 1844 his younger brother Nathaniel Palmer joined the business.〔http://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/founder_of_palmers_department_store_remembered_with_blue_plaque_1_1349437〕 In 1888, when Garwood Palmer died at the age of 73, the business transferred into the hands of Nathaniel Palmer's sons and the business became known as Palmer Brothers.〔http://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/founder_of_palmers_department_store_remembered_with_blue_plaque_1_1349437〕 The shop was the first building in Great Yarmouth to be illuminated by electricity in the town in 1902.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.ourgreatyarmouth.org.uk/page_id__121_path__0p44p49p.aspx )〕 Palmers has survived two major fires and bomb damage. Palmers is still owned and run by descendants of the store’s original founder.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://wmsmomo.org/e-commerce/ecommerce-marketing-great-yarmouth-store-palmers-keeps-it-in-the-family-with-online-expansion/ )〕 The company expanded in the 1990s and 2000s taking on stores in Bury St Edmunds, Dereham and Lowestoft.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/norfolk_department_store_boss_to_take_a_step_back_1_781263 )〕 It has previously had a branch in Red Lion Street, Norwich.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=George Plunkett Pictures )〕 In 2012 a blue plaque was placed outside the Conservative Club of Gorleston by the Great Yarmouth Local History and Archaeological Society, to commemorate the former home of the founder Garwood Burton Palmer.〔http://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/founder_of_palmers_department_store_remembered_with_blue_plaque_1_1349437〕 In 2014 the Dereham store was sold to Basil Todd, and closed in March 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=From Palmers to Chattels - work starts on Dereham's new department store - Dereham Times p. 23 April 2015 )〕 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「Palmers Department Store」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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