Roomes Stores is a group of two furniture and interior retail businesses in

Upminster Upminster is a suburb, suburban town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Havering. Located east-northeast of Charing Cross, it is one of the district centres identified for development in the London Plan. Historically a rural ...

, England, under a shared brand, with separate ownership. Roomes Furniture and Interiors is an independent family-run furniture store which has occupied several sites in east

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and is currently operating on Station Road,

. It is one of largest furniture supply outlets in Western Europe. Roomes Fashion and Home is a

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in Upminster, separately operated as part of the

Morleys Stores Morleys Stores is a group of eight department stores in Greater London, a business-to-business furniture supply subsidiary called Morley's of Bicester Ltd and a department store & furniture centre called Camp Hopson of Newbury in Newbury, Berks ...

group. Prior to 2009 both stores were in common ownership.

History

The first general store was opened in 1888 on Green Street, Upton Park and was closed in 1935. In 1927, a store was opened on the west side of Station Road, Upminster and in 1953, another store was opened just north of the Station Road location, on the opposite side of Branfill Road. These formed the fashion and homewares stores. A furniture store was opened on the east side of Station Road in 2001, originally known as "Roomes apart". The homewares store was demolished in 2007 and became a

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''Simply Food'' outlet. The remaining stores were refitted and extended in order to accommodate the displaced departments.Havering RA - Changing Roomes (2006)
/ref> In 2009, the non-furniture part of the business, by then contained within one building, was sold to

and continued to trade under the Roomes brand as Roomes Fashion and Home.

References

External links

Roomes Furniture and InteriorsRoomes Fashion and Home
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