Abandoned George Henry Lee Building Liverpool Abandoned Places

IN THIS VIDEO WE TAKE YOU ON A EXPLORE OF THE ABANDONED GEORGE HENRY LEE BUILDING IN LIVERPOOL.

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HISTORY

The George Henry Lee Building was built in the mid-1800s and started out as a bonnet store before being sold to the John Lewis Partnership in 1940.

John Lewis ceased trading from the Basnett Street store in 2008 and relocated to a 260,000 sq ft complex within Grosvenor’s Liverpool One.

In 1853 George Henry Lee and his brother, Henry Boswell Lee Junior opened a Bonnet warehouse on Basnett Street.

The brothers had learned their trade under their father, Henry Boswell Lee who was the owner of a famous Liverpool Silk business operating out of multiple sites in the city.

George and his brother grew the business quickly into a department store, becoming an exclusive shop with customers being led to the departments they wanted to shop at by Shop Walkers.

However the brothers’ business acumen was poor, so they employed an experienced buyer in Thomas Oakshott to manage their growing business from 1861.

Thomas eventually took over as the business partner from Henry Boswell, and solely ran the business from 1874 after George's retirement.

In 1897 the business became incorporated and at the time of Thomas Oakshott's death in 1910, the Oakshott family were the sole owners of the business.

The business continued to run under the ownership of the Oakshott family for another 9 years before they sold the store to American businessman Harry Gordon Selfridge.

Under Selfridge’s management the store lost its exclusivity and took on the brashness associated with Selfridge’s London store.

In 1926 the store was incorporated into the new Selfridge Provincial Stores group, in which it stayed until its collapse in 1940 and subsequent purchase by John Lewis.

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