Title: Photographs relating to rebuilding of John Barker store, High Street, Kensington, London
Date: 1924-1925
Reference: FRAS 1502/1
Former reference: HF 8/25/17  
Physical description: 1 album of 49 photographs  
Origination:  John Barker & Co Ltd

Title: Barkers of Kensington, 1870-1957
Date: 1957
Reference: FRAS 1502/2
Former reference: HF 51/8/1/1/3   HF 8/21/15  
Physical description: 1 album of 37 photographs and illustrations  
Origination:  John Barker & Co Ltd
Derry & Toms
Ponting Brothers

Additional information:

This volume was compiled and presented by Trevor Bowen to Hugh Fraser to mark the acquisition of John Barker & Co Ltd by House of Fraser Ltd in 1957.

Scope and content:

A pictorial history of John Barker & Co Ltd. Includes illustrations and photographs of Kensington Church, c 1750-1869, Kensington High Street c 1865-1951, Old Market Court, Kensington, 1865, delivery vans, 1910-1959, temporary food department, c 1912, butter and eggs display, 1925/1926, wedding cakes and bridal bouquets window display, 1929, food hall grocery section and meat department, 1929, exterior of main premises, c 1932, Ball Street, Kensington, c 1930s, display hall, 1930, coronation decorations at Pontings and Derry & Toms, c 1937, Derry & Toms building, c 1938, customers' bills, 1876-1877, triumphal arch at the entrance to Kensington, 1887, plan of part of town of Kensington showing proposed widening of High Street, 1824, the Terrace Gardens, c 1934, East wing of Barker building after a fire, 1912, exterior of Pontings store, 1959, Derry & Toms' roof garden, c 1935, 1955, and John Barker main block, 1959.

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Title: Pictorial record of old premises in Kensington, London
Date: 1961
Reference: FRAS 1502/3
Former reference: HF 8/25/16  
Physical description: 1 album of 28 photographs and 1 map  
Origination:  John Barker & Co Ltd
Derry & Toms
Ponting Brothers

Additional information:

This album was compiled and presented by Trevor Bowen to Hugh Fraser in 1961. The premises featured in the album were demolished and absorbed into the new premises of Derry & Toms Ltd in Kensington, London.

Scope and content:

Includes photographs of Young Street, Kensington, 1924, Ball Street, Kensington, 1928-1929, King Street, Kensington, 1928, Burden Mews, Kensington, 1928, Derry & Toms' yard, Kensington, 1928, Kensington Square, 1938, and map of shops and properties in Kensington belonging to John Barker & Co Ltd, Derry & Toms and Pontings.

Record type: Maps

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