Bainbridge's

The store, which is now branded as John Lewis Newcastle, moved to its current site in 1976, but the company dates back to 1838.

The store dates back to 1838, when Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge went into partnership with William Alder Dunn[1] and opened a drapers and fashion shop in Newcastle's Market Street.

In that same year, Bainbridge's employed a staff of 600 in Newcastle, and the store had 11,705 square yards of floor space.

This meant that people on low incomes could continue to buy from the shop and it kept the Bainbridge name and reputation known in areas where otherwise it might have faded away.

At the time of its demise, the Bainbridge name was one of the longest continuously traded department store brands in the world.