A last glimpse inside this deserted Newcastle former department store before it became a hotel
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Chronicle Live 28 MAR 2022. Newcastle's Co-op department store attracted shoppers for decades until it closed in 2011. While it was being converted into a hotel, photographs captured one last glimpse inside the vanishing store...or decades the Co-op department store on Newcastle's Newgate Street was a firm favourite with Tyneside shoppers. It opened 90 years ago, joining Marks & Spencer, British Home Stores, and C&A, all of which unveiled major outlets on Northumberland Street in 1932 as the city underwent a retail boom. The new Co-op was described in local newspapers as "majestic" and "a palace of trade" - with "the new skyscraper building of the Newcastle Co-operative Society" being built in two stages. Hundreds of members of the society attended the first opening in September 1932, and by Christmas that year shoppers were flocking to the store's various departments... -
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