room with three employees: two shop assistants and a deliver
boy. It took forty years to grow into a company employing one
hundred people by 1880.
2
An unexpected disaster made Harrods really famous in
December 1883 when the store burned down in a fire.
Amazingly, Harrods still delivered all its Christmas orders on
time, and made a fantastic profit.
3
It was Harrods at the end of the 19th century that installed t