AS Sauchiehall Street improvement works continue, here are the nine long-lost shops from this once-grand avenue that we miss the most...
(Image: NEWSQUEST) British Home Stores The high-street stalwart famous for its fancy lamps and budget designer wedding dresses kept plugging away in the face of multiple challenges – from online shopping and out-of-town retail centres – but eventually it collapsed, and the Sauchiehall Street store, which also had entrances on to Renfield Street and Bath Street, closed its doors in 2016. Since then, the building has lain empty and various revamp plans have fallen through. M&A Brown’s This lovely bakery, known affectionately by many Glaswegians as ‘Ma Broon’s’ had branches all over the city.
The Sauchiehall Street one had a restaurant downstairs, serving delicious lunches and high teas for special occasions. Inside Bradford's (Image: NEWSQUEST) Bradford's Another top bakery, Bradford's was founded in 1924 by Hugh Bradford with his sons, Hugh and William, on Niddrie Road in the south side of Glasgow. The business moved to Pollokshaws Road in the 1930s.
The company changed hands, and in 1984, opened its first city centre shop in Cambridge Street, incorporating chocolates and a tearoom service. Five years later, it moved to its flagship three-storey branch in Sauchiehall Street, taking over the premises of former department store, Sir Hugh Fraser’s. Sadly, the company closed its remaining stores in 2013.
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