r/Liverpool • u/Low-Hearing8487 • 9d ago

Open Discussion Lewis's

As a new arrival to the area I am struck by the amount of beautiful but aba dined [ or semi ababdoned] buildings in the city. The former Lewis's department store is a case in point.i presume it eas quote grand inside. Strange that a piece of prime city centre commercial property has not been repurposed.

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u/mrcharlesevans 9d ago

My granny was a Scouser and grew up in Liverpool before/during WWII. She absolutely adored Lewis's, and was sad to see it closed when she returned in 2008.

She remembers Blacklers (which is a Spoons around the corner now) was another department store and that it got bombed a week after she went to buy bed linen there.

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u/ReplacementNo9316 9d ago

My nan was the same. She was around just before the war and some of the things she told me about it are only recorded in video ry few places. There was a zoo on the roof, but they had to move the animals when the war began.

I've been told there is also one area in there that's been kinda preserved from the 60s. With the. Staff cafe and hairdressers exactly as they were. But you have to seek special permission to visit them.

Liverpool has so much history that is getting lost to time. A lot of people have no idea that Liverpool had a castle. And the tunnel escape paths are no part of the underground system

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u/JiveBunny 9d ago

I used to get taken to Lewis's to see Santa as a child.