Bonds fur department 1920s (Image: Archant)
It started off as a small shop called Bonds on Ber Street, was destroyed in the war, and is now a massive department store in a national chain.
These photos stretching back before the Second World War show how Bonds, and later John Lewis, has changed over the years.
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