What ocuppies the store now and what led it to close
thanks
Liverodysea

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yer,
Birmingham had a lewis's but it closed according to the internet

It became solicitors offices, law courts and the longest Wetherspoon pub in the world!

thank you for the information
Liverodysea

you're welcome!

Philip Green: Asset Stripper. Instead of our Owen Owen, we've now got a TK Maxx and a Tesco Metro. Our Lewis' has seen better days too. Was there an Owen Owen in Brum too? It pisses me off to think of all the large department stores thet this city has lost. Is it the same situation in Brum?

An asset stripper is true just look at Etam his recent purchase i wonder what would have happened to M&S
Thanks
Liverodysea (in Birmingham)

hopefully with beatties department stores being bought by house of Fraser there may
be stores up up for sale and Lewis's may take over one of the stores with the lewis's
brand name being used. I don't think that beatties will keep its own identity and a
don't think that Owen Owen group will buy the Beatties name

I think it is quite sad That a company which had a enviable position around 15 years
ago (there was 13 shops in the Group, when Department stores where going through a hard time,-hence why blacklers closed-13 shops is like every major city and growing say by 1 shop every 3 years (with philip greens money this could be well more) there would have been now 18 stores)
is now in a state of collapse
hopefully this will provide a good future for the stores
It seeens likely that Lewis's will return in maybe the beatties outlets ?as they over hang with both beatties and House of fraser?I THINK

thanks
Liverodysea (in Birmingham)
-A scouser out of place-
WOW this is my longest post yet !!!!!!!!
Birmingham version

Hi,
Although he has been killing off owen owens i don't think i would have survived anyway he has just preserved it without moving the group forward, hence why they had to canabolise the stores

thanks
Liverodysea (In Manchester & Birmingham)
-A scouser out of place-
Manchester & Birmingham Version

Philip Green: Asset Stripper. Instead of our Owen Owen, we've now got a TK Maxx and a Tesco Metro. Our Lewis' has seen better days too. Was there an Owen Owen in Brum too? It pisses me off to think of all the large department stores thet this city has lost. Is it the same situation in Brum?

There was no "Owen Owen" in Birmingham - there was one in Coventry (Built just before WWII, blown up, then rebuilt) that became an "allders" some years ago, and then the whole chain went bust. The Coventry store was one of the profitable ones, but unfortunately has been bought by some low-grade store called Primark. What a shame - it's a landmark building, six floors plus & a total waste. The council expressed some dismay at losing a profitable department store (As did academics at Warwick Uni), but at the end of the day, it's not in their hands - it's business, but they should have pushed for a better sale.

There was no "Owen Owen" in Birmingham - there was one in Coventry (Built just before WWII, blown up, then rebuilt) that became an "allders" some years ago, and then the whole chain went bust. The Coventry store was one of the profitable ones, but unfortunately has been bought by some low-grade store called Primark. What a shame - it's a landmark building, six floors plus & a total waste. The council expressed some dismay at losing a profitable department store (As did academics at Warwick Uni), but at the end of the day, it's not in their hands - it's business, but they should have pushed for a better sale.
...WRONG...there was an Owen Owen in Erdington....

That's how we ended up with a Tesco Metro and a TK Maxx. It was a massive department store clad in Portland stone, designed by W.A. Thomas, the bloke behind the Royal Liver Building, Tower Building and Neptune Theatre. It was supposed to be a luxury hotel, but went bust. Owen Owen stepped in, converted it into a department store and watched as their neighbours got bombed, replaced or sold down the river.

I have fantastic childhood memories of Lewis' in Brum, the toy department was huge, I also remeber a large Hamleys? was that a department store or a concension within a department store?

hamleys was fab i think it was a store on its own in bham...seem to remember it being nr where colmore sq is now...and it was in a hole in the middle of the road as you went thru a underpass to walk to it

oh happy memories

I have fantastic childhood memories of Lewis' in Brum, the toy department was huge, I also remeber a large Hamleys? was that a department store or a concension within a department store?
...Hamleys was a complete department store...Lewis's was fab..but alas gone bust...ah well..x :)

I remember a huge Teddy Bear in miltary outfit somewhere in store, I remembert reading an article somewhere a few years back saying that the business wasn't there or that Lewis's and Rackhams drove them out of the town but I am not sure? Isn't there a small Hamleys in town now? I can remember going for a macdonalds as well, must have been early to mid eighties, what year was the first macdonalds set up in brum?

that huge teddy bear was in a store in the great western arcade that connected to Hamleys...I know this coz it was owned by 2 poofs that I knew..Kinoke you're younger than I thought you were..!

I am a nubile teenager with long flowing culy blond hair, red roset cheeks and a smile adorned with tombstone teeth.

I am a nubile teenager with long flowing culy blond hair, red roset cheeks and a smile adorned with tombstone teeth.
...mmmm :)

And here I am!

http://www.puffins-brixham.velnet.co.uk/nick/alien.jpg

fuck you cheesecake!!..by the way Michael has just called me..and says he loves me and he'll be back in the morning (hes staying at our mates house)..I suddenly feel good..so mr alien are ya going to come for a pint one lunchtime?

Bloody hell, It would be a miracle if I managed a Brum meet let alone a lunchtime drink, why don't you attende the next meet and then you could make a friday date with other regulars like smileyface, blunther, MK, Foxtrot and rigadon, I'm sure they'de be cool with that as they work in the city centre whereas I don't. :)

Bloody hell, It would be a miracle if I managed a Brum meet let alone a lunchtime drink, why don't you attende the next meet and then you could make a friday date with other regulars like smileyface, blunther, MK, Foxtrot and rigadon, I'm sure they'de be cool with that as they work in the city centre whereas I don't. :)
okay okay..relax,,all I'm sayin is the city the size of Birmingham should reasonably support a lunchtime drinkiepoos most days..there are a million of us y'kbnow!? :)

Took this as i walked past today

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/djguinness/74c6f988.jpg

what is it?

Looks like a Wetherspoons to the blurry eyed drunk...

T'is the outside of the old Lewis's building. The Square peg pub on the ground floor on Corporation Street side, court offices above, and to the left more court-related offices, etc., plus a walk-through shopping centre with atrium, The Mineries, from the Bull Street side.

i know its a wetherspoons !!!!!!
Like the one in the old blackers (all i can do is watch LET KIDS DRINK)

thanks for the pic and information

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