Charles digby harrod biography of williams

Harrods is a department store located in Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, SW1

1824 Charles Henry Harrod first set up shop on the south of the River Thames in Southwark, at 228, Borough High Street.

He ran this business, variously listed as a Draper, or Mercer and Haberdasher, certainly until 1831.

Charles digby harrod biography of williams

1826 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership which subsisted between the undersigned, William Wicking and Charles Henry Harrod, in the business of Linen-Drapers, at No. 238, High-Street, Southwark, was dissolved by mutual consent on the 31st day of December last; and that the business will in future be carried on by th« said Charles Henry Harrod only...'^[1]

1832 His first grocery business appears to be as ‘Harrod & Co.

Grocers’ at 163 Upper Whitecross Street, Clerkenwell, E.C.1.

1834 In London's East End, he established a