The remaining Oxford Street store was acquired in 1951 by the Liverpool-based Lewis's chain of department stores, which was in turn taken over in 1965 by the Sears Group owned by Charles Clore.

It was formerly the flagship of a chain of department stores under the Lewis's name, that operated from 1856 to 1991, when the company went into administration.

Several stores in the chain were bought by the company Owen Owen and continued to operate under the Lewis's brand name for several years.

The city was host to numerous department stores, including: Lewis's, Owen Owen, Blacklers, Bunney's, George Henry Lee, Hendersons, John Lewis and TJ Hughes.

People in Liverpool, however, nicknamed his nude male sculpture over the door of Lewis's department store " Dickie Lewis ".

It includes a John Lewis department store ( no connection with Lewis's that was opened on Humberstone Gate in 1936 and closed in the early 1990s ) and a Cinema de Lux, the only multiplex cinema in the city centre.

The cinema is covered in a slightly buckled, stainless steel cladding, while the department store features two layers of glass, each with a swirling fabric design from John Lewis's archives, allowing light in and a view out, but obscuring the interior from the outside.

The department store discount ( 25 %/ 12 %) also applies on johnlewis. com, if the partner has a John Lewis's store credit card, the ' Partnership Card ' or using an email address registered by a partner with their manager.

Although not part of the mall, there is a link bridge over Osbourne Street to the Debenhams department store on the north side of the building-this was originally the historic Lewis's store on Argyle Street which itself had undergone a major renovation prior to St Enoch's opening.

The main concourse is part of a shopping centre and includes a subway link to the former Lewis's department store.

In September 1996 Allders purchased a number of department stores from the Owen Owen group that traded under the Lewis's and Owen Owen names.

On the opposite side of Humberstone Gate to the Haymarket is a new building, with no communal space, occupied by a variety of retailers, that incorporates the famous Lewis's tower from the previous department store on the site.

Lewis's was a large department store in Liverpool city centre.

Lewis's were generally among the largest department stores in their respective localities.

In 1951 the Lewis's group purchased the famous London department store Selfridges and later became part of the Sears Group headed by Charles Clore.

From 1928 Lewis's included a banking department in each store.

The library was funded by a donation of £ 100, 000 by Harold Cohen, chairman of Lewis's department store and the son of a former Lord Mayor of Liverpool.

Other large Manchester stores included Paulden's ( currently Debenhams ) and Lewis's ( now a Primark ).

By 1956, Lewis's had the largest stores in the provinces of the UK.

) Lewis's built stores in Manchester ( 1877 ), Liverpool ( 1856 ), Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool ( The Bon Marche ), Leeds, Hanley, London ( Selfridges ), Bristol and Leicester.

It has also been criticised for alienating local businesses ( such as Lewis's Department Store, Rapid Hardware and the stores on Bold Street ), and for shifting Liverpool's Shopping District ( resulting in a lot of empty units around Church Street, Lime Street, Ranelagh Street, Bold Street ).

* Leeds ( former Lewis's ; closed 2005 ; subsequently divided for mixed use including stores for Sainsbury's and T. K.

This resulted in Liverpool competitor Owen Owen buying up several branches of Lewis's ( but retaining the Lewis's brand name on those purchased stores ); Sir Philip Green revived the selling of toys on a large scale, by launching the brand Kids HQ in four Lewis's Owen Owen Stores, including those in Liverpool and Manchester.

In England the Wandering Jew makes an appearance in one of the secondary plots in Matthew Lewis's Gothic novel The Monk, first published in 1796.

The region had few inhabitants at this time, with the 1831 edition of Samuel Lewis's " Topographical Dictionary of England " claiming Crookham had 623 inhabitants and not even mentioning the ( at the time ) much smaller Fleet.

Described in Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of England ( 1848 ) as situated on " on a gentle declivity ", Ashton-under-Lyne lies on undulating ground by the Pennines, reaching a maximum elevation of about above sea level.

Described in Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of England ( 1848 ) as being in " aspect rather wild ", Royton lies in a shallow valley amongst undulating land.

In Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England published in 1848, the village was described as:

Lewis's news of Mendoza's appearance in 1996, coupled with the discovery that her disappearance in 1863 had been connected with the identical twin of the man who ruined her in Elizabethan England, begins his estrangement from the organization he has served since prehistory.

In 1848 Samuel Lewis's ' A Topographical Dictionary of England ' states that Slade Green was a hamlet with 66 people and Northend a hamlet with 191 people.

* The store gave rise to the well-known phrase " Standing there like one of Lewis's ", referring to the wax mannequins placed in windows in the 1920s, some of the first in the north-west of England.

Ulster-Scottish Campbells, Creelmans, Davisons / Davidsons, Fishers, Fultons, McLellans, Starratts / Starritts, Vances, and Wilsons settled the area, as did Lewis's from Scotland.

Lewis's account of convention received an extended critique in Margaret Gilbert's On Social Facts ( 1989 ), where an alternative account is offered.

Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ( 1950 ), Raymond Briggs's Father Christmas ( 1973 ) and the translation from French of Jean de Brunhoff's Babar and Father Christmas ( originally Babar et le père Noël, 1941 ).

In Lewis's 2005 book Dean and Me ( A Love Story ), Lewis wrote of his kinship with Martin, who died in 1995.

While Captain Kangaroo was still in planning stages, CBS executives had the idea of hiring Al Lewis, a kids ' show host in Cincinnati ( ABC was running Lewis's show at that time ), to host their show, but Lewis's managers refused to release him from his contract.

He appeared in more than 90 films, including The Great Imposter ( 1961 ), Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds ( as the man helping the Tippi Hedren character with her rental boat ), Jerry Lewis's The Nutty Professor ( 1963 ), Pocketful Of Miracles ( 1961 ) and, in a cameo, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

Some critics cite Joseph H. Lewis's Gun Crazy, a 1950 film noir about a bank-robbing couple ( also based loosely on the real Bonnie and Clyde ), as a major influence on this film.

According to Boulard ( 1998 ), " the most chilling and uncanny treatment of Huey by a writer came with Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here.

Since the publication of Anthony Julius's T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form ( 1995, revised 2003 ), where Lewis's anti-semitism is described as " essentially trivial ", this view is no longer taken seriously.

According to Boulard ( 1998 ), " the most chilling and uncanny treatment of Huey by a writer came with Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here.

* The Kid ( 2010 film ), an adaptation of Kevin Lewis's book of the same name, directed by Nick Moran

Some well-known soul jazz recordings are Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder ( 1963 ), Herbie Hancock's " Cantaloupe Island " ( 1964 ) ( which was popularized further when sampled by US3 on " Cantaloop ( Flip Fantasia )"), Horace Silver's " Song for My Father " ( 1964 ) ( quoted by Steely Dan in their " Rikki Don't Lose That Number "), Ramsey Lewis's " The In Crowd " ( a top-five hit in 1965 ), and Cannonball Adderley's " Mercy, Mercy, Mercy " ( 1966 ) ( also popularized further when covered as a top 40 pop song by The Buckinghams ).

The Supreme Grand Lodge meets annually, often in Lachute, Quebec, Canada ( however, in August 2009 the Supreme Board met in Toulouse, France, in honor of the 100th Anniversary of H. Spencer Lewis's initiation there ), and is responsible for the worldwide coordination of AMORC, the establishment of new administrations, and the appointment of jurisdictions to Grand Lodges, usually based on language.

A hierarchical version of Gabriel Kron's Network Tearing was published by Keith Bowden ( 1991 ), reflecting David Lewis's ideas on Gunk.

When the series ended Wolfe and Chesney followed it with Don't Drink the Water ( 1974 / 75 ), which starred Stephen Lewis's Blakey abroad in Spain, which lasted for two series.

* Louis Comfort Tiffany ( 1848 – 1933 ), Charles Lewis's son, stained glass and jewelry artist, later associated with Tiffany & Co.

Musically, according to Ricky Vincent, author of Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One ( 1996 ), Jam and Lewis's collaboration with her is said to be one of the high points of the 1980s, as they redefined dance music by mixing a youthful sound with industrial-strength beats.