Sheffield retro: The history of John Walsh Ltd, or Walsh's department store, which occupied Castle Square for over a century from 1875.

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00:00The moor and other shopping streets around Sheffield city centre are almost unrecognisable

00:05now compared to how they looked in decades gone by. One of these shops in particular was

00:10Walsh's department store which sat on the high street opposite where the castle square tram stop

00:15is now. From a small baby linen and ladies outfitting shop in 1875 it grew in its over a

00:22century of business into a large department store and offered silks, dresses, millinery, ribbons,

00:29laces, medicine, stationery and even opened a cabinet making factory on Pinfold Street.

00:37The business was taken over by Harrods in 1946 and Harrods was then taken over by House of Fraser

00:4413 years later. Ultimately Walsh's shut its doors in 1998 and the street level part of the building

00:51is now recognisable as Poundland, British Heart Foundation and Sports Direct.

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