Shops on High Street, Sheffield city centre, in August 1976, including Freeman Hardy Willis shoe shop, Hector Powe tailors, Saxone shoe shop, and Norwich Union Buildingsplaceholder image
Shops on High Street, Sheffield city centre, in August 1976, including Freeman Hardy Willis shoe shop, Hector Powe tailors, Saxone shoe shop, and Norwich Union Buildings | Picture Sheffield/Sheffield Newspapers Ltd

Sheffield retro: 21 photos showing shops you may remember from the 1970s

Long before the days of Amazon or megamalls like Meadowhall, this is what shopping was like.

These photos will transport you back to the high streets of the 1970s in Sheffield, and the shops we had back then.

There were a lot more department stores in those days, these nostalgic black and white pictures show, with Woolworths, famed for its pick and mix, among the notable casualties.

This retro photo gallery captures both the big chains and the smaller independent stores which were popular in Sheffield during the 1970s, in the city centre and out in the suburbs.

How many of these stores do you remember, and are there any 70s shops you wish were still around?

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