Frederick Baker's came on the scene some time later than the other three, the first mention in censuses being in that of 1891 which showed Frederick Baker, a draper, living with wife Mary (1863- ) and trading as a draper at No 13, Queen Street. He had married Mary Baker in 1888, at St Clement. The The British Press and Jersey Times Almanac (1888) has at that date, at this address, W. Pickett & Co., so it would seem that Frederick Baker moved to the premises later that year or between then and 1890, at the latest. By 1895 the business was known as Amy and Baker, and by 1905, owned by Frederick Baker and advertising itself as British Drapery Stores, it occupied Nos 9, 13 and 15. Eventually it would absorb no 11, which remained in separate ownership for a long time.
Rivals acquired
The Baker family acquired rivals Noel and Porter in 1953, but both businesses were closed in the 1960s and the substantial property holdings sold and the sites redeveloped.
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