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There they were - GONE
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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Business Name
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
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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
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now Ocean Fisheries 2
also known as The Pot Shop
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see G & G Wilkes
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now Primark
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see Empire Theatre
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see Empire Theatre
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Closed September 2001, was also known as Hilton Shoes, then Q House
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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
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see Empire Theatre
Now Mega Computers
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bakery & cafe owned by Susanne (Suey) & Joseph Fletcher
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Previously Middletons Pet Food, prior to that, Blue Circle private library
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closed October 2001
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closed September 2001 and moved into their other branch on Bridgedate
now Specsavers
moved to Bridgegate
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Became Ks
Valve makers
Was Radio Rentals (Closed March 2002)
Valve makers
moved to Howard Street
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now Tescos
Became Q House, then Earnshaw's Butchers
was a post office, moved across the road
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"The tailors to trust"
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moved to Fitzwilliam Road
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see G & G Wilkes
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now Primark
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now Clives Jewellers
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Horace Orton, employee, on photo on Tusmore Street page
was also known as Hilton Shoes & Earnshaw's Butchers
became Poundstretcher
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also known as Pennywise, moved to retail world, parkgate
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now College Street in old Granada building
booking office
garage
now Qdos
became Rotherham-Tinsley Steels
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see Rotherham Forge
moved to Howard Street
now Millets
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Next door to the "free milk & orange juice shop"
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bought by Firth Rixson and moved to Ecclesfield, trading as Firth Rixson Special Steels
Closed 30/6/2002
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Closed 3/7/2002
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became Banana Shoes
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the FIRST supermarket in Rotherham
now Wilkinsons
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moved to Sheffield Road
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became Legends bar
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closed 2001 (now Beaujangles tea rooms)
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was Millets, now Ilkestone Travel Centre
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Many thanks to Harry Wilkes
for information supplied
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