Arding & Hobbs
Arding & Hobbs is a former department store and Grade II listed building at the junction of Lavender Hill and St John's Road, Battersea, London SW11 1QL.[1]
Arding & Hobbs was established in 1876. The present building was constructed in 1910 in an Edwardian Baroque style, and the architect was James Gibson.[1]
The department store was purchased by United Drapery Stores in 1958 and was added to their Allders group in the 1970s. Allders went into administration in 2005 and was subsequently broken up and sold. The main part of the Arding & Hobbs building is now split between a branch of Debenhams department store and TK Maxx retail. As of 9 June 2020, the Debenhams section of the building has been permanently closed.
The store and building is featured in a number of films and television programmes including the 1981 action-thriller Nighthawks, where the shop was bombed, the 1994 Mr. Bean episode, Do-It-Yourself Mr. Bean[2] and is very prominent in the video "Life On Your Own" by the band The Human League which is set in a future, apocalytic London where the lead singer is the only person left alive and lives in the building.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Historic England, "Arding and Hobbs store (1389528)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 26 September 2014
- ^ "Mr Bean". retrofilminglocations.weebly.com. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
External links[]
Media related to Arding & Hobbs at Wikimedia Commons
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