EXPLORE COLLECTION

1920s

HMV store closing down in Southampton, March 2018
Music & Entertainment

HMV

HMV opened its first shop on Oxford Street, London, in 1921 and became a defining British destination for recorded music.

BHS department store in Kirkstall, Leeds, photographed April 2006
Department Stores

BHS

British Home Stores was a familiar fixture of British high streets for decades.