page_title: Boyes (retailer)
section_title: Hull
hierarchical_section_title: Boyes (retailer) / History / Hull
caption_attribution_description: English: Boyes Plaque
context_page_description: Boyes is a chain of department stores in England. William Boyes founded the firm in 1881 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire and it has been run by generations of the Boyes family ever since.
  The company's slogan is "for good value" and the stores specialise in the discount retail sector, stocking a mixture of regular lines, one off special purchases and clearance items. Boyes stores stock over 30,000 products over a large range including household products, fashion and footwear.
  Its full trading name is W Boyes and Co. Ltd, however the stores trade as "Boyes". It is still owned and family run with Andrew Boyes and his son Richard as joint managing directors. Richard represents the fifth generation of the family.
  The company is based at its head office at Havers Hill in Eastfield. It expanded this site with the purchase of the former Polestar Greaves factory in 2011. It also has a warehouse site at nearby Hopper Hill.
  The stores serve around 250,000 customers a week. They run a twice yearly sale and hold other promotional events.
context_section_description: Hessle Road
  Boyes operated in Kingston upon Hull from 1898 with a shop in Prospect Street, but it was closed in 1901 when the lease was sold to Taylor's Drug Store, a business owned by another Boyes director, William Taylor Mason. In 1920 they returned to Hull, this time on Hessle Road. The company leased a building owned by Johnny Wardell, later buying the lease. In 1927 Boyes bought a neighbouring property to extend the store and further extended the store in the 1950s.
  Holderness Road
  The next store in Hull opened on Holderness Road in 1965. The store was built on the site of the former Savoy cinema. The cinema was bombed in the last Luftwaffe attack of World War II to cause civilian casualties in the UK. Thirteen people were killed and 22 injured and they are commemorated on a plaque on the outside of the store.
  Bransholme
  A store in the Bransholme (now North Point) centre followed in 1973. Boyes were the first company to sign up to open a store in the centre. The Bransholme store was under threat of closure in 2014 when terms on a new lease could not be agreed and the company began looking for new premises in Hull. After negotiations, a new lease was agreed, but Boyes still pushed on with plans for a new store.
  Whitefriargate
  The company's fourth store in Hull, on Whitefriargate opened on 19 September 2014. The unit was previously occupied by Peacocks, and before this it was one of the first Woolworths stores in the UK.
caption: Plaque outside Boyes, Holderness Road, Hull
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