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Description: | This is the original artwork for a bus-side advertisement for Derry and Toms department store. It was produced when the shop still had its premises in Wrights Lane. Charles Derry and his brother-in-law Charles Toms sold their business to Barkers in 1920. They moved to 99-121 Kensington High Street and the existing building was designed by Bernard George and constructed in 1932. The building is still affectionately known as "Derry and Toms". Kensington Roof Gardens, which cover one and a half acres 100ft above the building, were laid out between 1936 and 1938. In the 1970s the building was taken over by Biba's and more recently by leading high street retailers such as Marks & Spencer, Gap and H&M. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Copyright unknown - London Transport Museum Collection | Subjects: | Leisure | Temporal: | c1914-1918 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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