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Hope Brothers opened there store at 50/51 Long row west in 1904 they had been in business since 1880s Ann there head office Ludgate hill London. 1969 saw them move to no 3 Long row east but in1971 begin the great closing down which them disappear from the high streets of the nation. I began my working life with Hope brothers in 1967 as. Junior salesman a 16 year old just out of school. I closed the Eastbourne branch as a 20 year old manager in 1971