Do you have a favourite department store?

They shut shop a few years ago

David Morgan, Cardiff

annsixty oh yes! Kendal and Milne in Deansgate. I still call it Kendal's. Mother's favourite shop. She bought me an expensive dress there for passing my 'O' levels. When we were very young she went every week and when we were on school holidays, the waitress would always make sure there were strawberries for my sister and I. That must have been early 1950s.

JL is my go to store. I prefer the Liverpool branch. The eating place in the Cheadle store is now most unpleasant and chaotic.

Ooops, 1969??‍♀️?

So many good stores we had in Glasgow city centre have gone?
Daly’s
Pettigrew & Stevens
Watt Brothers
Lewis’s are the ones that come to mind

House of Fraser still a good store selling good quality items.
Not too keen on John Lewis, best of a bad bunch compared to Debenhams which I have never liked

Gabriella, I spent 6 months in Liverpool in 1069 when I was involved with working at The Everyman, our watering hole was The Phil. Happy memories of my time there.

You're so right grannysue05, Lewis's and Marshall & Snelgrove were wonderful stores, especially at Christmas with their beautiful decorations throughout the store. When I was a teenager, I went to work as a Saturday girl in Affleck & Browns. It was so luxurious on the shop floor but a completely different behind the scenes! Working there was like being in Are You Being Served!

Fenwicks in Bond Street makes me feel I'm somewhere special. I remember being taken to Bourne & Hollingsworth for clothes as a child.

Jessops in Nottingham, now JL.
Griffin and Spalding also Nottingham, now the most awful Debenhams and then when we moved to Manchester, Kendals, on either side of Deansgate, with a subway under the road going from one store to the other.
That is now House of Frazer and rather like a jumble sale to me

Ranleigh Street - auto correct.

Meant to type Lewis's in Raleigh Street Liverpool, not John Lewis which is (or used to be) George Henry Lee in L'pool.

JL are not going to price match any more so it's a ? from me.
I used to like John Lewis in Liverpool but that went decades ago.
Now there is no real choice. HoF has concessions but no floor staff and less choice within those concessions. Debenhams...a sinking ship.
Nope...it's a blank.

Oooo Liberty!

Bonds of Norwich. Now John Lewis. Peter Jones of Chelsea. Now John Lewis.

Used to love M&S but now so dowdy.

Fortnums and Masons was an experience, but only to look at the customers, and the floor walkers!

John Lewis

And David Jones when I visit family in Sydney! Very much like JL.....

Before we were married I liked visiting DH in London and going to Jones Bros. in Holloway Road. Aladdin's cave for this country bumkin back in early 70's.
No department stores for 50 miles

Selfridges

We lived near Birmingham and I can't imagine the city without Rackhams ( or the" back of Rackhams come to that.)

Their foodhall was nearly as good as Harrods albeit not as large.

PS " back of Rackhams" is a Birmingham joke.

Oh forgot Libertys, all those lovely prints, and Biba in Kensington High Street, friends and I would do regular pilgrimages there on a Saturday to gaze at the clothes we couldn't afford

John Lewis is or was our go to shop. Now we live in SW Wales it is a fair old trek to Cardiff. We did order a new television from them. DH was delighted when it came in a proper JL delivery van. Snobbish. Nooooo.

John Lewis, my nearest one is a mere 10 minute walk away, closed of course at the moment. I'd hate to lose them off the high street.

Yes I remember diving into Simpsons of Piccadilly Dinah many moons ago when I worked up in town, then of course there is Harrods, but I never really liked it that much, well not enough to buy anything, although one of my sons forced me to buy a Star Wars toy there that was 3 times the price of what it would cost locally, but it was a quid pro quo pact he'd set up on the basis that he wouldn't moan whilst we went to an exhibition at The Royal Academy mercenary little git Although I did like to visit the pet department in my late teens, where you could buy a lion if you so wished, as one did back in the day Fortnums lovely to wander around and frightfully naice for a cuppa and a slice of arm and a leg cake!

Not a department store, but Daunt Books in London, if I could be locked in for the night anywhere it would be there.

Lewis's in Manchester sold just about everything. If you wanted to be really upmarket there was Marshall and Snelgrove.
The beauty assistant there (were they called that in those days?) , told me I had far too much make-up on for a child.
I was eighteen !

Missfoodlove how could I forget Libertys. My paternal Grandpa worked in Carnaby Street and when I went to work with him on Saturday mornings from about 9 years old I was allowed to browse Libertys and Galts Toyshop on my own. I felt so grown up but it is inconceivable nowadays.

Each year we buy a Christmas Bauble from there.

Another big John Lewis fan here; but we also have a very good independent department store, trading in our city 1872. It is one of the ones that had the sense to move with the times, but is still run by the same family, selling good brands and offering excellent service. We had several department stores when I was growing up and they went to the wall one by one, but this one stayed the course and is a pleasure to shop in.

Liberty, always Liberty.