William Tarn & Co. was a large department store in the Elephant and Castle district of Southwark. The business seems to have begun as a drapery shop c. 1799. In 1841, William Tarn & Co. is listed in a London Directory as "silk mercer, linen draper and general house furnisher."
By the 1870s, the company had expanded to become a huge department store. There were departments for silks, velvet's, furniture, haberdashery, millinery, boots and shoes, furs, carpets, and suits. The store was the largest retailer in Elephant and Castle—a thriving shopping area at this time—known as "the Piccadilly of south London."
The store in New Kent Road was opposite and facing the entrance to the Elephant and Castle Theatre (Coronet).
I believe the building in Newington Causeway was destroyed in WW2, but leaving the pubs and surrounding buildings ok?
William Tarn & Co.
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