Formally a Wetherspoon Lloyds Number 1 bar, similar to normal pub just with music playing in the background. Wetherspoon renamed the pub The Gatehouse and continued to operate the location until 2016. Originally the location of National...

Morgan Hair & Beauty is located in a victorian shop on the corner of Market Street and Bird Street. The shop can be seen on the right in this postcard from c.1900’s. The small statue on the front of the building has long since...

The Irish sandwich bar closed around 2009.

One of the short stay Christmas shop that opened in Lichfield. This one Home of Fragrance opened after the closure of 39 Steps in 2011.

If I remember correctly this address was the home to many old names including Fine Fare and Viking Office supplies to name but two.  In the later years it was used for Fashion and Christmas shops, the type that pop up in November and...

Savers specialise in branded health, home and beauty products the Lichfield store closed in May 2011 and opened a short time later as Superdrug this was due to both being owned by the same parent company.Savers occupied two old shops...

In 1995, the Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society accepted a purchase offer from Lloyds Bank. For the deal to go ahead though, the Society had to demutualise. Its members voted overwhelmingly in favour of the change. The resulting...

The location remained empty for a while until Union Menswear opened in 2018. They later changed their name to just Union and add womens clothing along side the menswear range. Closed in August 2018. 

Hawkin’s Bazaar open in 2009 and sold novelty gifts and toys. 

Opened just after the closing of the Ponden Mill store in 2009, you can still see the Ponden Mill sign in the top left of the photo. GimmeGizmo.com sold crazy gadgets and novelty toys, the type of things you would buy for a stag or hen...