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Beatties. Beatties was a small British department store group located primarily in the Midlands of England. In 2005, when it had 12 stores, the group was acquired by House of Fraser. On 14 January 2006, the Birmingham store closed, because a similar House of Fraser store, Rackhams, was not far away. In August 2007, the Telford store was ...
The business went from strength to strength. In 1894 there were 40 members of staff and a turnover of £30,000, which increased to £44,000 by the end of the century. Things went badly wrong in early 1896 when the store was badly damaged after a fire, which caused over £8,000 worth of damage.
In the 1960s the company began to open branch stores, the first being at Birkenhead in 1963, followed by a store in Solihull in 1966 and another in Dudley in 1969. Others followed and by 2005 there were eleven in total:
On December 1st, 1936, numbers 7 to 10 Darlington Street were acquired and on September 16th, 1937 work started on Beatties garage in Townwell Fold. The land on the corner of Victoria Street and Darlington Street was acquired from Wolverhampton Council by gent's outfitters, Montague Burton.
In March 2001, 13 of the remaining stores were sold to turnaround specialists Hilco, and the final 13 stores were closed, at the cost of more than 100 jobs. Modelzone acquired many of the former Beatties stores and also suffered a similar fate closing down in 2013. A museum-quality collection of heritage transport toys called "The Beatties ...
Jun 7, 2018 · The James Beattie store in 1902 - one of the earliest pictures taken in Victoria Street - 15 years after the firm was founded on that site as the Victoria Drapery Supply Stores Beatties in the 1920s
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Jul 25, 2018 · By the 1890s, some large stores were doing as much as one third of their business by post, and developed separate departments to deal with demand. Yet the physical shop remained the cornerstone of ...
