The world’s top shop
Mar 04, 2020
2 minutes
MORE than any other Knights-bridge street, Brompton Road has perfected the metamorphosis from undistinguished address into a triumph of opulence—thanks, in no small part, to Harrods.
Strictly speaking, the street did not exist until 1863, but the land it now occupies was, for many years, a sequence of market gardens and inns. Change began towards the end of the 18th century with some piecemeal development and, by
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