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Feb 22, 2010 · Lewis's closes down the shutters after 154 years. It's stood firm through World Wars, the Great Depression and became a Liverpool landmark, but now the Lewis's name will vanish forever from...
- Lewis’s Department Store – The Fifth Floor
- Tough Times
- David Lewis’s Shops
- Liverpool Resurgent
The fifth floor of Lewis’s has taken on an almost mythical status. In the store’s heyday, the 1950s, the fifth floor was the place to dine in the self-service cafeteria or the Red Rose restaurant. You could also get your hair done in the salon. A large mural decorated the walls, but this and the other features have been behind closed doors since th...
Lewis’s went into administration in 1991 and all but the Liverpool store were sold off, the majority to competitor Owen Owen. The Liverpool branch continued to trade though, until it went into liquidation in 2007. Bought by Vergo Retail Ltd in the same year, it managed to soldier on until the lease on the iconic building came up for renewal. Recent...
David Lewis opened his first small store on Ranelagh Street, Liverpool in 1856. It was a small, glass-fronted shop as shown in the drawing on the right. It expanded piece by piece between 1910-12 into much larger premises, though these suffered a fire in 1888. The building was once again heavily damaged, this time by German bombs, during the Second...
The statue Liverpool Resurgentis accompanied by relief panels depicting scenes of childhood. The sculptor, Jacob Epstein, modelled the figures in the panels on his own children and grandchildren. These represent the younger generation which Liverpool was being rebuilt for. The lifts, surprisingly, are one of the most interesting features of the Lew...
Sep 23, 2018 · Ambitious plans were announced to redevelop the store and the land behind it into the £160m Central Village regeneration scheme, But that stalled in the fallout from the recession, leaving the old...
- Alistair Houghton
Dec 21, 2021 · From 1856 to 2010 it was the flagship store of the Lewis’s empire, and generations of Merseysiders shopped and worked there, on the corner of Renshaw Street and Ranelagh Street.
Aug 23, 2023 · For the past 16 years, large swathes of the Lewis’s Building on Renshaw Street have remained unoccupied. Schemes have come and gone since the historic store closed its doors back in 2007 but now fresh hope for the site comes with a new plan to repurpose the Grade II listed location.
Sep 20, 2017 · Property firm Augur Group said Lewis's on Ranelagh Street will be rebranded and house shops and leisure facilities.
Feb 23, 2010 · Lewis’s landlord Merepark said it wanted to close the store so that the building could be developed as part of a hotel and retail complex. Staff at the store were told the news yesterday. Lewis’s has been trading on Liverpool’s Ranelagh Street since 1856.
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