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.