A blue plaque is to be installed in Weston-super-Mare to mark a retail giant’s special links with the seaside town. Weston Town Council has teamed up with the department store John Lewis to install a plaque dedicated to its founder.
The blue plaque will be installed on the gate pillar of 72 Bristol Road Lower, a property once owned by Mr Lewis, next month. John Lewis came from a Shepton Mallet family of bakers and milliners.
Through sheer hard work and entrepreneurial zeal he rose to become one of the nation’s favourite retail traders and his name, together with those of later associates Messrs Waite and Rose, still adorn the front of many large stores and supermarkets from London’s prestigious Oxford Street to provincial cities and towns.
