D H Evans was opened in 1879 by Dan Harries Evans at 320 Oxford Street. Evans was a Welshman who had trained as draper and had moved to London in 1878. This store quickly grew and by 1885 he had taken on three of the adjoining stores. In 1893, the store moved into further new premises at 290-294 Oxford Street and became a limited liability company. The former East block of the store was sold to John Spedan Lewis, of the
John Lewis Partnership for £848,500. outside D H Evans in 1974 After the war, D H Evans purchased the Devon business of
J F Rockhey, and D H Evans was run as a wholly owned subsidiary of Harrods. In 1954, Harrods was purchased by
House of Fraser, and D H Evans become a trading arm within the Harrods group. A second D H Evans store was added in Wood Green, London in 1980, and the Oxford Street store was refurbished twice between 1982 and 1985. In 2001, the store was rebranded under the House of Fraser name. The store closed permanently in January 2022. ==References==