Why London’s “Harrods Of The East” Didn’t Quite Go To Plan

In the 1920s, the Wickham family decided to demolish a row of shops in London's East End, in order to build a grand new department store - one that could rival Harrod's and Selfridges in the West. They signed a big budget contract with the builders, and shipped in all the stone at great expense. There was just one problem: one of the shopkeepers didn't want to sell... INSTA - https://www.instagram.com/the.tim.traveller TWIT - https://twitter.com/TheTimTraveller FACE - https://www.facebook.com/TheTimTraveller/ FURTHER READING Story of the buildings on Lookup London - https://lookup.london/spiegelhalter-mile-end-road/ Spiegelhalter family history about the shop - https://www.yorkbeach.co.uk/family_history/spiegelhalter/shop.html Department Stores Of My Youth by Stories of London: stories-of-london.org/youth/ PHOTO CREDITS Nail House by Zhou Shuguang - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Chongqing_yangjiaping_2007.jpg