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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00:00 The moor and other shopping streets around Sheffield City Centre are almost unrecognisable now compared to how they looked in decades gone by.
00:08 One of these shops in particular was Walsh's department store, which sat on the high street opposite where the Castle Square tram stop is now.
00:16 From a small baby linen and ladies' outfitting shop in 1875, it grew in its over a century of business into a large department store
00:26 and offered silks, dresses, millinery, ribbons, laces, medicine, stationery and even opened a cabinet-making factory on Pinfold Street.
00:36 The business was taken over by Harrods in 1946 and Harrods was then taken over by House of Fraser 13 years later.
00:46 Ultimately, Walsh's shut its doors in 1998 and the street-level part of the building is now recognisable as Poundland, British Heart Foundation and Sports Direct.
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