Comments on: Photos from the 90s – Sheffield’s Castle House Co-op department store

By: Soult's Retail View » Blog Archive » Familiar discount names in Staffordshire’s former Woolies stores

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:10:58 +0000

[...] Stafford’s Co-op is owned by the Midlands Co-operative Society, which is now the second largest retail Co-op in the country (after the Co-operative Group), and has maintained a significant non-food operation at the same time as other co-ops have closed down all their department stores. [...]

By: Hypnotherapy Sheffield

Hypnotherapy Sheffield — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:21:55 +0000

It would have been brilliant if the old Co-op could have been saved. I found that spiral staircase hypnotised me if I looked at my feet as I went down it as a kid but unfortunately, like you said, it just isn’t a great location and dept. stores generally aren’t what they once were.
It is a real shame that such a great bit of Sheffield history has bitten the dust.