‘I’m devastated it’s closing’: London shoppers say farewell to Fenwick

Fenwick in New Bond Street. ‘It’s more understated, it’s classic,’ one shopper said. ‘It has things you actually need.’ Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

More than 130 years after it opened, the London flagship Fenwick department store will close its doors for the last time on Saturday.

The four-storey shop in New Bond Street, Mayfair, is shutting after the retailer – which is owned by more than 40 descendants of John James Fenwick, who founded the company with a single store in Newcastle in 1882 – sold the property to developers for £430m.