The House of Reeves is an independently family run furniture store in Croydon Greater London, England that was founded in 1867.
The House of Reeves had a plaque of the Hand Cross erected on it’s location on Church Street by the Croydon Rotary Club that marked it’s location of the Croydon’s Four Crosses that symbolized privilege of self government which was a form of free tenure of property.
This company, Reeves Corner, came into global attention when the building was destroyed in an arson attack during the 2011 England Riots and was razed to the ground. The 2011 England Riots were triggered by the shooting death of a local man, Mark Duggan, and continued for days with the messages conveying political standings, social issues, racial tensions, economic decline, and the unemployment
Images of the Reeves Furniture Store fire became a symbolic image of violence, Time magazine .
