We used to have a Gieves & Hawkes in my home town, the days before it went downhill (the town not G&H). The reason it was probably there was we are quite close to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst where all the Hoorays get trained & also city types that used to commute into Waterloo daily. I think it shut down around 25 years ago.
Kent and Curwen had a stand alone store up the road in Sunnigdale back in the early 80's. I bought a few pieces back then, their Polo shirts were very good in a nice array of colours it was also a bit different as Lacoste was becoming really popular especially with a lot of fakes floating about back then. I also bought a few repp ties. I remember wanting a cricket/tennis sweater which looked lovely but were overpriced. It was only there a few years before closing down and I thought that was it, but a while back I saw guys like Brad Wiggins wearing it with skinny jeans & white trainers.