Group    From 1955  To 1969

Bazaar, Kings Road

Categories: Commerce, Craft / Design

The first Bazaar boutique was opened by Mary Quant at 138a Kings Road, in 1955. More information and photos at our Image Source, the magnificent Another Nickel in the Machine. Quant opened a second Bazaar in Knightsbridge in 1961.

Bazaar closed in 1969.

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Bazaar, Kings Road

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Mary Quant

The plaque was unveiled by Quant's son Orlando Plunkett Greene. Jan Elson ha...

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Benetfink & Co

Benetfink & Co

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Group, Commerce

1 memorial
Squadron HG

Squadron HG

121 Kentish Town Road.

Group, Armed Forces, Commerce

1 memorial
Great fire of Tooley Street

Great fire of Tooley Street

From the picture source website: "The fire started in consignment of jute stored at Scovell's warehouse at Cotton's Wharf. This was the biggest of all the peacetime fires in the port: it raged for ...

Event, Armed Forces, Commerce, Tragedy

2 memorials
Surrey Docks

Surrey Docks

The south bank of the Thames used to be in Surrey, now in Southwark. The first dock created here in 1696 was initially named Howland Great Wet Dock and then Greenland Dock due to the whaling ships ...

Place, Commerce, Transport

10 memorials
Lord Weatherill

Lord Weatherill

Trustee of The Memorial Gates Trust. Bruce Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, KStJ, PC, DL, was born on 25 November 1920, the son of Bernard Bruce Weatherill (1883-1962) and Annie Gertrude Weat...

Person, Armed Forces, Commerce, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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Howard Morley

Howard Morley

Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has researched the name of Howard Morley and is convinced this is our man. Howard Morley was born on 8 November 1846, the fourth of the eight children of Samuel Morley...

Person, Benefactor

1 memorial
Dame Laura Knight

Dame Laura Knight

Painter. Born Derbyshire with the surname Johnson.  Met her future husband Harold at Nottingham Art School, though they did not become romantically involved until 1894, after they had both left, an...

Person, Art

1 memorial
Hatch End Station

Hatch End Station

A former station named 'Pinner' was opened nearby in about 1844, and renamed 'Pinner and Hatch End' in 1897. The present station was originally served by the London and North West Railway, and in 1...

Place, Transport

1 memorial