A one time Lichfield was a wash with many card and giftshops, Sarah Banbury’s like many others closed once peoples shopping habits began to change.
Tatlow Cards And Gifts opened at the location for a short time before that too...
Smart Ideas are a family run card and gift retailer which was founded in 1978 with the opening of their first shop in Droitwich in Worcestershire. The company is not linked in anyway to Hallmark cards.
This is only Shoe Zone second home in the city. Shoe Zone as a whole sells over 20 million pairs of shoes a year. In 2000 Shoe Zone acquired The Oliver Group plc who use to own and run the Olivers Shoes shop in Levetts Square.
Tough times for Mothercare, owners of the ELC saw the closure of the shop in Lichfield. Shoe Zone moved to the spot after being unable to renegotiate renewal terms for their previous location.
Hallmark Cards and The Works as they were in 2002. The works in located in the former Ironmongers shop Smith and Paker.The Works still remains at the location, but Hallmark closed in around 2015.
Nestled inbetween Hallmark and Thomas Cook the bank only lasted a few years in Lichfield taking up 43-45 Bore Street. After the closure of the bank the internal layout subdivided to form two retail units.
For many years this address was the home to the Building Societies Town & Country and the Woolwich. In 2000 the Woolwich was acquired by Barclays Bank and six years later in June 2006, Barclays announced that The Woolwich was to become...