tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110084440464006279.post4429612052181062033..comments2024-03-26T23:00:45.683+00:00Comments on Jane's London: Treasure House, 19–21 Hatton GardenJanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09099069900570994344noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110084440464006279.post-36581803255402390612017-06-19T11:14:04.771+01:002017-06-19T11:14:04.771+01:00Dear Geoff, thank you so much for taking the time ...Dear Geoff, thank you so much for taking the time to add this information. Wow, what an entrepreneur. I love hearing about these smaller companies and lesser-known individuals who had such amazing innovative features within their establishments... it's not all bout the big boys like Mr Selfridge etc. Thanks again. Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09099069900570994344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110084440464006279.post-20139189426209485612017-06-18T07:58:08.192+01:002017-06-18T07:58:08.192+01:00The Treasure House was commissioned in 1906, compl...The Treasure House was commissioned in 1906, completed in 1907 by David Stewart Dawson, founder of Stewart Dawson Jewellers (1849-1932). He started business in Liverpool in the mid-1870s, selling watches by mail order. In the '80s he opened his first retail branches in Australia and New Zealand, where he became a household name for quality and service. He imported much of his stock from London, where he maintained an administrative HQ at 20 Hatton Garden. It was this site that he had developed to build The Treasure House. It was very advanced for the time, with electric lifts, showrooms and a whole floor set aside as a customers' lounge. He later opened a shop on Regent Street but at the end of WW1 he withdrew from the UK business and spent the remainder of his life in Sydney, having moved very successfully into real estate. He died a billionaire in today's values.Spinner57https://www.blogger.com/profile/15335564496921796645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110084440464006279.post-73587217970919726792017-04-19T10:18:11.705+01:002017-04-19T10:18:11.705+01:00Ha ha! Nice one!Ha ha! Nice one!bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110084440464006279.post-26583412735372482942017-04-17T16:11:33.105+01:002017-04-17T16:11:33.105+01:00Blog it and then post the link here ... I love it ...Blog it and then post the link here ... I love it when other people do all the work ;-)Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09099069900570994344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9110084440464006279.post-10268479301945912482017-04-13T16:28:31.203+01:002017-04-13T16:28:31.203+01:00Coincidentally, I led my Sunday morning walking gr...Coincidentally, I led my Sunday morning walking group past this building a couple of weeks ago! We also saw The Mitre and Bleeding Heart Yard (where the daughter of Sir Christopher Hatton - after whom Hatton Garden was named - was found murdered). Ely place which Mitre Court leads too is worth seeing as well. <br />I was thinking of writing a Blog about Treasure House myself. I love those carvings?<br /><b><a href="http://todiscoverice.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> CLICK HERE for Bazza’s recondite Blog ‘To Discover Ice’</a></b>bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.com