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| ROTHERHAM1 There they were - GONE |
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| This page is to remind people in ROTHERHAM of the Shops and Business names that have disappeared over the years, so, If you have any recollections of the listed items and would like them adding, please E-MAIL me |
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| Albert Varah, Grocer Allens Chemist Atlantis Fish Shop Banana Shoes Bentley's Brewery Blackburns Block & Cleaver Butchers Blue Circle private library Blyth Model Dairies Boos Mini Shop Boothes Butchers Bricknell's Newsagents British Gas British Home Stores Brittains Brooks Green Grocers C & A Cannon Cinema Cantors Charles Harvey, Music Seller Cinema House Classic Cinema Clovers Fishmongers Co-op Coopers Toy Shop Courtneys Soft Furnishings Crooks Fruit Stores Crowthers Grocers Cunningtons Hardware Davy's Cafe Deakins Chemist Dewhurst Butchers Dixons Earnshaws Butchers Electric Pavillion Empire Super Cinema Empire Theatre Enpar Ltd Ernest Cross Ernest Giles, Opticians Essoldo Cinema Everest Fellows Fletchers Confectioners Foster Menswear Freeman, Hardy & Willis G & G Wilkes Heaberdashery Garnett & Co Gilling Hosiery Global Video Goddards Music Going Places Gough's Grocery G.P.O Grand Clothing Mall Grange & Armeson Glass Gregory's Corset Shop Guest & Chrimes Granada Gummers Halifax Building Society Halfords Hastings Furniture Heatons Baths Hepworths Hillards Superstore Hiltons Shoes Home Clear Trading Humphrey Davy's Chemist Jack Fulton, Frozen Foods J.B.Eaton Jeffersons Photography John Bottomley, Shoemaker John Colliers John Law & Sons Joseph Peck Lambachs Laughton & Sons Lee of Leeds Liptons Grocers Lloyds Chemist March The Tailors Maypole Dairy Co Ltd Melias Ltd Middletons Pet Food Store Midland Iron Company Midland Opticions Miss Pearsons Ladies Fashions Montgomery's Hairdressers Moran's Newsagents Moretons Boxing Stadium Morgan & Co Mothercare Mothers Pride Bakery Muntus Travel Naylors Greengrocers Neville Reed Odeon Cinema Orly Travel Outram, Funeral Carriage Proprietor Q House Pennywise Porters Sarsaparilla Shop Pound Stretcher Premier Picture Palace Prudential Assurance Co Radio Rentals Riley's Coaches Riley's Coaches Roseby's Rotherham Forge & Rolling Mills Ltd Rotherham Forge & Rolling Mills Ltd Rotherham Tinsley-Steels Ltd Rumbelows Rumbelows Salon Debene, Ladies Hairdresser Saxone & Sons Scales & Sons Schoales Schonhut's Butchers Seddons Wireless Store Sheffield Furnishing Sheffield & Hallamshire Bank Singers South Yorkshire Wine & Spirit Co Ltd Spar Spiers Spencer Clark Metal Industries Stationery Box Steel Peech & Tozers Strand Card Shop Stuarts Outsize Fashions Stylos Sugg Sport Supercigs Tellings Butchers Texas The Pot Sop The Royal Tailoring Co Timsons Shoes Tivoli Cinema Tops Top Shop T.S.B Turveys T.W.Downs, Butchers Van Allens Victoria Wine Visionhire Waddingtons Wakefield Army Stores Wakefield Army Stores Walter Wragg Cycles Whitegates Estate Agents Wigfalls Woodcock Travel Y.E.B |
| Wellgate Frederick Street Wellgate Corporation Street Canklow Road High Street College Square Wellgate Bridgegate Hirst Drive, E/Herringthorpe Frederick Street Bridgegate Frederick Street High Street Doncaster Gate All Saints Square Howard Street High Street Effingham Street Wellgate Doncaster Gate High Street Wellgate Corporation Street Doncaster Gate Wellgate Moorgate Street Mansfield Road Park Lane, Thrybergh All Saints Square Wellgate Effingham Street Frederick Street All Saints Square Henry Street High Street High Street Greasbrough Street Effingham Square Wellgate High Street Wellgate Effingham Street Effingham Square All Saints Square High Street Wellgate Henry Street College Street Frederick Street Frederick Street Bridgegate College Street Main Street All Saints Square Effingham Street 24 Wellgate Don Street College Street Thornhill Upper Millgate Bridgegate Effingham Street Thames Street High Street Forge Island All Saints Square Doncaster Road, Eastwood High Street Upper Market College Square Frederick Street Wellgate Effingham Street All Saints Square Bridgegate Bridgegate High Street Bridgegate Effingham Street Frederick Street High Street High Street College Square Wellgate Midland Road Church Street Wellgate Wellgate Court Park Lane, Thrybergh Effingham Street College Square High Street Greasbrough Road All Saints Square Park Lane, Thrybergh High Street Corporation Street Wellgate Tusmore Street All Saints Square Bridgegate Effingham Street Bridgegate Kimberworth Park Road College Square Effingham Street Corporation Street Westgate Effingham Street Greasbrough Street Forge Island Greasbrough Street High Street Howard Street Bridgegate Corporation Street Doncaster Gate ? All Saints Square Howard Street Bridgegate College Square Corporation Street College Street Flanderwell Lane, Sunnyside Effingham Street Greasbrough Street Bus Station Ickles All Saints Square Bridgegate Bridgegate Wellgate High Street Wellgate Court Retail World, Parkgate Corporation Street Effingham Street College Street Masbrough Street Corporation Street All Saints Square Broad Street, Parkgate College Road College Square Doncaster Gate High Street High Street Bridgegate High Street Effingham Street Effingham Street Vicarage Lane High Street Howard Street Corporation Street |
| Area In Rotherham |
| Information |
| . . now Ocean Fisheries 2 also known as The Pot Shop . . . see G & G Wilkes . . . . . now Primark . . . see Empire Theatre . . . see Empire Theatre . . . . . . . . . . . Closed September 2001, was also known as Hilton Shoes, then Q House . see Empire Theatre became Empire Super Cinema 1927, Essoldo 1953, Classic 1971, Cannon 1986 bought by Firth Rixson and moved to Ecclesfield still trading as Enpar . . see Empire Theatre Now Mega Computers . bakery & cafe owned by Susanne (Suey) & Joseph Fletcher . . Previously Middletons Pet Food, prior to that, Blue Circle private library . . closed October 2001 . closed September 2001 and moved into their other branch on Bridgedate now Specsavers moved to Bridgegate . . Became Ks Valve makers Was Radio Rentals (Closed March 2002) Valve makers moved to Howard Street . . . . now Tescos Became Q House, then Earnshaw's Butchers was a post office, moved across the road . . . . . "The tailors to trust" . moved to Fitzwilliam Road . . . . . . . . see G & G Wilkes . . . . . . . now Primark . . . now Clives Jewellers . . Horace Orton, employee, on photo on Tusmore Street page was also known as Hilton Shoes & Earnshaw's Butchers became Poundstretcher . also known as Pennywise, moved to retail world, parkgate . . now College Street in old Granada building booking office garage now Qdos became Rotherham-Tinsley Steels . see Rotherham Forge moved to Howard Street now Millets . . . . . . . . Next door to the "free milk & orange juice shop" . . . bought by Firth Rixson and moved to Ecclesfield, trading as Firth Rixson Special Steels Closed 30/6/2002 . . . . . Closed 3/7/2002 . . became Banana Shoes . . . the FIRST supermarket in Rotherham now Wilkinsons . moved to Sheffield Road . became Legends bar . . closed 2001 (now Beaujangles tea rooms) . was Millets, now Ilkestone Travel Centre . . . . . |
| Many thanks to Harry Wilkes for information supplied |