Hi All

Does any know/remember if there ever was a Marks & Spencers down near the Sheffield Markets ( haymarket )

just one of those pub conversations that has people arguing for hours

Isn't that a bit too close to Fargate? There was one on the moor before Meadowhall sucked all the worthwhile business out of the town centre.

There was a large British Home Stores - it shut down a few years ago.

Nomme

Actually, now you say that, if you go and look at the entrance to the BHS (if that's where you think it was) M&S usually have some give-away structural details. The terrazzo (?) entrance would be a specific colour, and they may even have had a brass name plate on the threshhold.

Yes
I thought that that BHS was once where a marks was years ago before they moved up town, that one near pond st you mean ? woolworths was a bit further down.

Marks and Spencers never had a store near the market. When the old market hall was pulled down, Woolworths moved into a brand new building where Wilkinsons is now. The old Woolworths store was pulled down and a new building erected, this was occupied by British Home Stores but now stands empty.

In my teens I actually worked at Woolworths and moved with them from the old building into the new one.

Marks and Spencers had stores on Fargate and the Moor.

There was m&s in fargate and also 76 the moor next to atkinsons,as I have ask in a previouse thread did anyone work in the moor branch in the late 60s to mid 70s,as i used to work there then ,left to start a family,but know some still work at m&s meadowhall,even now!Thats a long time to work for the same company.It used to be a good company to work for,and they use to look after their staff,back then.

I can't remember a M&S down near the market, but can anyone remember a M&S where the Locarno was, I'm sure that M&S opened a store in that same building, and previous to M&S opening the shop, it had been a cinema, and the floor sloped down to the front?

Where was the Locarno?

Originally posted by Strix
Where was the Locarno?

Bottom of the moor, my Saturday night hang out, but don't remember a m&s being there at all.

Originally posted by marycrookes
I can't remember a M&S down near the market, but can anyone remember a M&S where the Locarno was, I'm sure that M&S opened a store in that same building, and previous to M&S opening the shop, it had been a cinema, and the floor sloped down to the front?

Mary, - are you perhaps thinking of Atkinsons ? Their shop was in an old cinema towards the bottom of The Moor [about opposite where they are now] in th 1940s. I remember the sloping floor and the entrance was up steps similar to the Locarno.

Thanks Greybeard, you may be right things changed a lot down there, so could I ask if anyone also remembers a very big church that stood back from the pavement, and I think there were steps going up? Also there was some single storey buildings also near the Locarno and I think one was Fretwell Downings caterers?

Yes I remember M&S being where the Locano was. As Marycrookes says the floor sloped. It must have been just after the war and before the buiding wa a dance hall. I remember shopping there with my mom and my aunt. probably about 1948, I was about 12. In my early 20's I was dancing there and as far as I remember it was newly opened.
It had an upstairs part were you could look over the balcony and watch the dancers.
Hazel

there was an M&S on The Moor (http://www.picturesheffield.co.uk/cgi-bin/hpac.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.id=6802)

The one I remember was more modern though.