LONDON, Jan. 24.—William Whiteley, ... His establishment covered a huge area in Westbourne Grove, in the far West End of London, which when he started in business there, ...

The Whiteley’s roots lie in the 19th century, when Yorkshireman William Whiteley, one of the great showmen of Victorian retail, launched London’s first privately owned department store in ...

When its genteel crescents and squares were built in the 1850s it was a quietly affluent area, where William Whiteley decided to build a drapery shop on Westbourne Grove that became the new ...

Starting out as a draper’s on Westbourne Grove established by William Whiteley in 1863, it soon outgrew that location and in ...

Whiteley’s was started as a “fancy goods” shop on Westbourne Grove by William Whiteley in 1863. It grew over the next decade but suffered a series of suspected arson attacks culminating in ...