What store do you wish was still here.?

I remember Huckleberry Willow well Fannycornforth situated on the old Duckworth Square area which is currently being redeveloped & not before time! When I was a child there were a few department stores in Derby, Barlow & Taylor’s which was like something off Are You Being Served & Midland Drapery on the corner of East St & St Peters St. Bennett’s was the last to go, always had a beautiful Christmas Tree, pleased to hear it could be coming back. Annsixty yes Ranby’s was another department store that eventually became Debenhams & has now been pulled down. I just hope Birds Bakery never goes under! [

C&A and Littlewoods. We used to stand around in Littlewoods and wait for the Happy Hour announcement before starting shopping.

We only have a small M& S food.so M&S Clothes and furnishings.
Laura Ashley
House of Fraser
Richards 'Principles
Country casuals
Jaeger in some towns but not our city
Independent Department store Bulloughs
John Lewis/Bainbridges.
Our town only has coffee shops charity shops and banks.
The few independent I never go in.

Whoops you’re right about Carluccio’s NotAGran55, they have been taken over, and only some of the restaurants have closed - sadly including the two nearest to me, in Cardiff and Gloucester.

Yesterday we were looking for a Lancashire potato peeler (the only peeler Mr A will use and he peels most of the potatoes), some blue cotton thread, some crochet hooks, some light bulbs and some nice ribbon.

After visiting the two nearby towns we found the thread (Wilkos), light bulbs (Robert Dyas), crochet hooks (small independent sewing shop) but still have no Lancashire peeler. After about two hours I said to Mr A "I really miss Woolies - we could have got the lot there in ten minutes". Our nearby towns are actually almost useless unless you want to have your hair/nails done, eat, drink, buy a book or buy some throwaway clothes ? Even the Wilkos and Robert Dyas are quite small compared to others I've seen.

littleflo

When we were 13, my friends and I were asked to model for Dorothy Perkins for a charity fashion show. They paid for us to have our hair done and I was so excited. Sadly the show over-ran and was cut short, so I never got to strut my stuff.

Cut short before your international modelling career took off!

annsixty

No Fanny it was a small department store, must have been before your time!!
I lived in Heanor and 20 mins on the bus to Derby.
Happy memories.

I loved Ranby's ann. My trolley bus (and later my bus) home from work went from outside Ranby's which had a really rickety, wooden escalator. My Granny lived at the top of Green Lane on Wilson Street.

Fanny, Debenhams took over the Ranby's store.

When we were 13, my friends and I were asked to model for Dorothy Perkins for a charity fashion show. They paid for us to have our hair done and I was so excited. Sadly the show over-ran and was cut short, so I never got to strut my stuff.

Timothy Whites purely nostalgia. Boots, Booklovers Library. Now that I do miss.

Another Pier fan here.
As far as I know Monsoon are still on the High Street along with Carluccios?

East and Monsoon both available on-line.

As a teenager I loved Etam and then Principles and bussed to Kensington High Street to Biba from Ascot before I learned to drive at 17. Happy days.

Proper old fashioned department stores before they were ruined

The worst thing about Pollards was making sure none of your friends knew your mum went in there.

We had a Pollards near us, but I didn't buy very much in there.
I loved Biba when I was younger ( a lot younger!), I don't think I would buy much in there now mind, I would look very silly.

Woolworths children's clothes were good.
All those little vests and petticoats.

In my late teens I used to buy bras in Woolworths.
BHS for tights which were cheap and fitted perfectly.
Country Casuals.

Etam

I used to love Lewis's in Birmingham. I can remember the long queues to see Father Christmas and his assistant Uncle Holly in the 1950s. They also had a roof garden.

Ethel Austin was a good little shop.

In Birmingham in the 1950/60s I would visit Barrows department store, they had a restaurant where we were taken as a treat.

Rackhams

Neataware - I think that us how you spelt it.
More recently East and Monsoon - already mentioned.

We still have C&A here and I just looked at what I am wearing and it is all from there.
I have often taken groups from the UK around the city and it is like a mass exodus to C&A.
Including the men.

Woolworths for me too!

Oh yes, Pollards!
It was like stepping back in time.
All those lovely wooden cabinets, and we had a lady who was like Mrs. Overall working in ours.

BHS and Woolworths are the ones I miss most.

Monsoon is still in Birmingham as far as I know.

Kate1949 the last Monsoon store I saw open was in August last year in Durham. Not sure if it’s still open. They do sell some of there stuff on QVC.