Which lost Sheffield store would you like to bring back?

The Star, Sheffield

Which lost Sheffield store would you like to bring back? Vox pop in Sheffield

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00:00 I don't know, you've just got a choice. You go to town, you can see, you pass loads of shops.

00:04 You didn't just go to town for one thing like Marks and Spencer on Fortgate.

00:09 You can start at the bottom of the moor and work your way up and, you know,

00:13 on a window shop and sort of pop in and buy stuff.

00:17 Where did you used to go?

00:18 In what way? Well, shopping.

00:20 With shops that aren't there now.

00:25 Was it in town? No, I don't know. I used to go mostly on Ican Saw Road like Robert Brady and

00:30 Harrison's.

00:32 Clothes?

00:33 I don't know, what's your back, sir?

00:38 No, I think I just sort of...

00:41 Are they clothes shops? Sorry.

00:43 Yeah, clothes shops, yeah.

00:44 H.O. Brown, that's a quality shop, isn't it?

00:48 Still going strong, I think, I believe.

00:51 What about a toy shop?

00:55 Ah, Redgates.

00:56 Yeah, toy shops, I suppose, yeah.

01:00 Would you like to bring it back?

01:01 Do they really have toys now, these young ones? Or computers and things?

01:05 Or anything else, like a department store and stuff?

01:10 Yeah.

01:10 Which one?

01:12 I'm not sure. John Lewis, isn't it?

01:14 Or before that?

01:14 Before that?

01:16 Oh, they used to be Paul Runs, Schofields, didn't they? C&A's used to be quite a few.

01:20 They all disappeared.

01:23 It's a fact of life, I suppose, though.

01:25 Which one of them would you bring back?

01:27 John Lewis.

01:31 Even though now they sell you some stuff down at Waitrose, I believe.

01:36 People aren't happy about this sort of thing.

01:39 And they've just closed that chemist in there, Moot's, in the corner, so

01:42 they might start utilising that for their stuff.

01:46 Yes.

01:50 Decent department stores back in the city centre.

01:52 There's nothing to visit the city centre for.

01:55 You go to town and Waitrose used to spend an afternoon in town.

02:00 You spend half an hour there and you think, "Where do I go now?"

02:03 Yeah.

02:04 What department store do you remember?

02:06 Well, there's Marks & Spencers and that's about the only one now.

02:10 And there's Atkinson's, isn't there?

02:12 From back in the day?

02:13 Oh, yes, they used to have that.

02:14 Oh, yeah.

02:15 There were lots of...

02:17 Well, there were co-op lovers, obviously.

02:20 John Lewis and Cockains, Atkinson's, Schofields.

02:24 Is it Pauldins?

02:28 Yeah, Pauldins, yeah.

02:29 Walsh's?

02:30 Well, yeah, yeah.

02:32 A bit upmarket from here.

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