• J F Rockhey was a department store located in Torquay, Devon with a further smaller branch in Newton Abbot. John Fry Rockhey bought a small drapery business...
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  • 1972; renamed Dingles c. 1972; closed 1980s J F Rockhey (Newton Abbot) – opened as a branch of J F Rockhey of Torquay; acquired by D H Evans; subsequently...
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    closed 1988. The store was at 34-38 Courtenay Street) Newton Abbot, J F Rockhey (formerly John Mackenzie; acquired 1959; closed 24 March 1973 with the...
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    for £848,500. 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...
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    the J J Allen business were transferred into the new Dingles group as well as D H Evans in London and the two Devon department stores of J F Rockhey which...
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