The company maintains an office in Marylebone, and several additional locations in Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, Brook Green, Kensington and Chelsea - the result of its acquisition of Bective Estate Agency.
In 1843 the auction-room of the bazaar was converted into a furnishing ironmongery called the Panklibanon (also written as Panclibanon) which made items for the home including fireplaces, stoves and bathtubs.
[4] Under his management the department grew in size and popularity and in the 1883 edition of A Dictionary of Common Wants Druce & Co. are cited as viable sources for numerous goods.
She claimed that he was not the furniture retailer Thomas Charles Druce but rather that this was an alter ego and that he was really John Bentinck, the 5th Duke of Portland.
[11] After a years of campaigning, the court ruled in Anna's favour and on 29 December 1907 work was begun to move the 3 tonne stone monument which marked Druce's resting place.
[9] The incident gained international fame and the story was printed in newspapers including The Los Angeles Herald and The New York Times.
[12][13] A fictionalised version of the Druce-Portland affair is the subject of Tom Freeman Keel and Andrew Crofts' The Disappearing Duke: The Improbable Tale of an Eccentric English Family (2003).