Newcastle, Market Street, Bainbridge's Department Store

HER Number:
12735

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Market Street, Bainbridge's Department Store

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Shop

Site Type: Specific:
Department Store

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

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:
249

Northing:
643

Grid Reference:
NZ249643

Lats/Lons:

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