Own by the Home Retail Group, Argos was sold to Sainsbury’s after a four-month battle in 2016 to buy them after its owner agreed to a £1.4bn takeover. After the sale Sainsbury’s started to add stores and collection points...
Wade Street in the 1950’s. These were taken at a time when Wade Street joined St. Johns Street to Bakers Lane. The small child in the photo is standing outside the Lord Rodney public house at number 70 Wade St, now the location of the...
The address in St John Street had remained empty for sometime before Gilmores opened. The location was registered for use as a beauticians from 2002 with the last being Pretty Nails and Beauty. In the late 1990’s the location was...
The address was home to a various newsagents for several decades, the last one closing in 2019. Harun’s barber shop is the latest barber to open in the city.
A newsagent has been at the town end of Bird Street for several decades with different names, Stars, Cadbury News and Lichfield Local. The newsagent was wound up voluntarily and went into liquidation in September 2019.
The Frog Lane Boys’ school was initiated by Dean Woodhouse with supported by subscriptions and by donations from the Conduit Lands trustees in 1803. The brick building in the photo is thought to be designed by Richard Greene, a...
Over the years it has been the location of a furniture store, several building societies, estate agent and pop up calendar shop. The latest to move in is restaurant and bar Barhaha which opened in 2019.
Guardian House is a four-storey, office building in the centre of Lichfield. Build in the late 1960’s it was to become home to the local DHSS and job centre. The building was demolished in 2019 to make way for more retirement homes in...
