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Description: | This wool tailored jacket was bought in Binns, of Sunderland. Binns was established in 1800 when it opened as a drapers shop. Like many shops that started out selling cloth to make clothes, Binns expanded to become a department store. In 1897 it changed it name to H. Binns & Son & Co. Ltd and met the demand for a variety consumer goods, including ready-made clothing. It continued to be a department store until the 1990s when it closed down. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East small business made in the North East shopping people women | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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