Sheffield retro: 23 nostalgic photos taking you back to shops of the 80s and 90s, from Suggs to Woolworths

These photos take you back to the days before internet shopping, when the retail landscape looked very different.

They show shops you may remember from the 80s and 90s, revealing how much our high streets have changed in the last quarter of a century.

Do you remember shopping at Sugg Sport, Woolworths, Dixons and Debenhams?

This retro photo gallery shows those lost stores and many more around Sheffield during the 80s and 90s.

They also show how different some of the city’s main shopping parades looked back then, including The Moor, with its old brick trams at the top, and Fargate.

These nostalgic images take you on a shopping trip around the city centre, showing much-missed stores such as Redgates toy shop and C&A.

They also take you out into the suburbs, including Hillsborough and Parson Cross, and they capture the early days of Meadowhall and Crystal Peaks shopping centres.

Do these photos bring back any memories for you? Which shops from the 80s or 90s would you bring back if you could?

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