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...
Bradshaws was a family run electrial sales and repair business. In 2007 the city shop changed hands and Bradshaws moved to Unit 37, Britannia Way, Britannia Enterprise Park.Since the move the business has had a change of direction and name...
By the time this photo was taken the Smithfield had been renamed to the Sozzled Sausage. The pub closed in 2007 and was demolished in August 2008 for the Tesco redevelopment. To me it would always be the Smithfield, a place where Dave...
The discount book shop closed in 2016 due to ever increasing costs and the planned redevelopment of the City Arcade. The shop area now forms part of Micheals.
The HUB was a chain of bargain household shops. The business was setup by David Dodd, a co-founder of discount store chain Poundland. The business collapsed and all store closed September 2011.
The Lichfield branch closed on the 28th April 2018. I believe this was due to the usual problem of the landlords not willing to negotiate on renewal. To give you some idea it would cost approxamitly £117,059 in rent, rates and...
Originally Totesport which was owned and run by the UK Govement. In July 2011 Totesport was privatised and sold to Betfred.Betfred rebrand the local branch and after a few years relocated to the old Victoria Wine shop in Tamworth...
Hepworth Building Products on Eastern Avenue finally closed at the end of 2007, by then most of the work force had a gone with a phased shutdown that had begun in June. By the summer of 2008 the site had been demolished to make way for...
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