This featured appeared in the Bromley & District Times in 1941, giving a lovely introduction to the family firm Perring. A furniture company based on value and honesty. It was in 1892 that a new name came to the furniture trade of London when William Perring, a young man from the West Country, opened a small shop in Paddington. There was an ideal behind this venture – an ideal of service and value. It was an ideal which found a ready response. To-day you will find the name of Perring…
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Part-Exchange Furniture in the 1940s
One of the ‘Perrings’ Furniture Store was located on the High Street in Sidcup. Perrings was a small family firm, run by two brother, John and William Perring, who had broken away from their fathers shop just off Euston Road, London in 1893. Both in their early twenties, the brother set up independently, dividing their territories to the north (William) and the south (John) of London. They steadily opened up new shops, with wartime breaks, until by 1966 they both owned 20 stores each. Their business started primarily with bedding,…