New record shop and cinema set to open in famous old Sheffield shopping street
Bosses plan to open up this summer
A famous old Sheffield city centre shopping street is set to see a new record shop open up.
And the new shop will also have a cinema and a gallery when it opens its doors for the first time on Chapel Walk, next month.
The shop window is currently covered up with copies of The Star, dating back to the 1980s.
But a poster in the window confirms the imminent arrival of the shop, which will be called Memory Dance.
Bosses at the business said: “In June 2026, Memory Dance opens a dedicated venue. A refurbished Victorian unit down Chapel Walk in Sheffield city centre.
“A record shop, gallery space and basement cinema.”
The organisation, Memory Dance, says it has been working with film and TV projects, festivals, heritage organisations, programmers, artists, musicians, and curators since 2009, locating rarely-seen archive collections in new and exciting contexts.”
The shop unit which they are due to occupy is one of a number of shops on the road which have been recently refurbished under a Sheffield Council project.
For some time, parts of the of the alley, which runs from Fargate to Norfolk Street before coming out close the the Crucible Theatre, were obscured by scaffolding.
Some businesses raised concerns that the scaffolding made the route appear ‘gloomy’.
The plans to restore the historic link was part of a refurbishment project which included several shop fronts, which saw Sheffield City Council spend £250,000,
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At one time it was bustling but vacancies appeared due to a shift of retail to The Moor, the rise of online shopping, months of scaffolding in 2019.
Historically the street has been home to businesses including shops and cafes, with many of them having been independents.
Sheffield residents have raised concerns in recent years over the number of shops which have been lost in the city centre.