The first shoes by the glamorous Italian designer Salvatore Ferragamo

Fortnum & Mason: To unveil a 24 million pound facelift

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It is 300 years ago this week, the world's most notable shops, Fortnum & mason, open to hungry connoisseurs.
As a noble guest is famous for its food, Fortnum as its coveted is now officially to queen grocer and the prince of wales.
Later, the queen of the conventional sir Winston Churchill, Jacqueline Kennedy and Betjeman sir John.
Fortnum is British itself, open the door, the combination between Scotland and England.
At this rate, prince Charles will in Thursday's ceremony, formal birthday, when Fortnum & mason reveals the £24m updated to include a huge, fourstorey atrium and five new restaurant.
Dramatic changes. But nothing can eliminate the years of history and the pronoun of luxury brands, the diet.
This shop is by William Fortnum, fighting, queen Anne. As a coffee shop, he was allowed to use the candle, there is a palace of the candlestick.
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The shop still has a cheque, above, from Dickens, dated March 21, 1865, for the then princely sum of £37 18s 11d

These he sold the court ladies, do very well with his local shopkeepers friend Sue mason, and together they open them in Piccadilly store.
The expansion of the British empire, the store's reputation, even to the British overseas Fortnum rely on quality and service.
In the 1850s, queen Victoria ordered stores send Florence? Nightingale was a huge, for the injured in the beef tea Crimean peninsula.
A 1922 Himalayan adventure and 60 Fortnum cans of goose liver sauce, and the officer in the distant quail corner turtle soup empire can order 8 shillings (today) a pint of 30 pounds, jugged hare three shillings ($12 million pounds), the Christmas pudding, 200 million euros (16) two seconds.
When Edward, duke of Windsor, in France after getting married Wallis Simpson, resign convinced him that he liked the shipping Fortnum breakfast? Oranges and fresh kipper.
Now, to help to celebrate the first anniversary, the mail on Sunday 300 has entered Fortnum unique private records, stories of fame and character, the shop customers, quality and quirks, more than three centuries, to consolidate its in Britain's heart deep feelings.
You will find in other products, such as the reindeer can send and crocodiles curry, aphrodisiac pearl lollipop by wild herbs and ground natural pearls, roast potato chips, by giant ants worm (rice taste like popcorn) said?
In fact, he has abundant emporium, conservative innovation? Often play a key role. Feeling of retail
Tea. This shop has played a major role in our love and a drink in 1707, just become fashion.
It began to import a lot to meet new demands? And still have a large store of tea, li arrived from China.
The block cost the enormous sum of £2 5s ? the equivalent of nearly £300 now.
More than a century later it was the first shop in Britain to sell baked beans, after American Henry Heinz visited in 1886 and persuaded it to take his best known product.
In 1901 a tin of baked beans cost 9d (£2.80 today) and was extremely popular even with the grandest ladies.
In the Fifties, Fortnum's stocked the first stiletto heels in Britain, designed by Roger Vivier, and in the Twenties, the first shoes by the glamorous Italian designer Salvatore Ferragamo.