Your city has boasted its fair share of retail royalty down the decades thanks to a range of department stores which catered for bargain hunters and shopaholics. These photo memories showcase those stores who welcomed generations of shoppers before finally closing there doors for good. Which do you remember the most? And which would you like to see make a comeback? READ MORE: 26 Leeds shops you visited during the 1980s from the city centre to the suburbs LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
7. Lewis's
Lewis's on The Headrow was the place to go for generations of aspirational shoppers and bargain-hunters. It served the city for more than 60 years before becoming an Allders in the mid-1990s. | YPN Photo: YPN
8. Allders
Allders on The Headrow was a retail tian. Thousands of people flocked to bag a bargain at its big closing down sale in 2005 which included filling a carrier with all the underwear you could stuff in for a fiver. | Dan Oxtoby Photo: Dan Oxtoby
9. Littlewoods
Littlewoods reopened its Briggate store in October 1984 after a complete refurbishment costing £1.5 million. The store was taken over by M&S in the summer of 1997. | YPN Photo: YPN
10. Debenhams
May 15 , 2021. was the date shoppers mourned the close of the Debenhams store on Briggate. The chain had been a familiar sight on high streets up and down the country for 243 years. | YPN Photo: YPN
11. Marshall & Snelgrove
It was the department store which fell out of fashion. It was founded in 1837 and opened in Leeds in 1870 before closing just over 100 years later in 1971. It sold a wide range of clothes, furnishings, carpets, linoleum and many other things. | YPN Photo: YPN
12. Willis Ludlow
The store, on the corner of Vicar Lane and Ludgate Hill, was a popular haunt among bargain-hunters for furniture and soft furnishings. It proved to be a retail gem during the 1960s but by the end of the dawn of the 1980s it had shut down. | YPN Photo: YPN