How Knight & Lee has changed through the years as plans for future are submitted
By Matthew Mohan-Hickson
Published 18th Sep 2019, 13:22 GMT
KNIGHT & Lee could be transformed into a cinema as well as a 43-bed hotel and more under new plans.
The Southsea based department store which closed its doors for the final time in the summer has changed a lot in the 100 plus years since it was founded, including being bombed during WW2. Now it could be set for a dramatic redevelopment. Read more about the plans here. See how the store has changed through these pictures.
Knight & Lee through the years
Here is what the Knight & Lee shop in Palmerston Road looked like in 1910
An early advert used by Knight & Lee to try and encourage shoppers to visit the store
A flyer advertising a summer sale at Knight & Lee - featuring a picture of King George V which dates it between 1910 and 1936.
A bus advert for Knight and Lee from the early 20th century
Knight & Lee after being bombed by Germany in 1941 during WW2
Here is Knight & Lee's second store on Elm Grove in 1949
A picture from inside Knight & Lee in days gone by.
The Knight & Lee store in Elm Grove during the post-war period
