Broadbents & Boothroyds Of Southport

This department store reminds me of just what quintessential department stores should be. Ornate, old, on a main street, looking pretty as can be, even more enticing at Christmas. And that’s just what Broads and Booths is. Plus it holds great nostalgia for me, a pair of my friends used to busk outside it when I was working as a chambermaid at Squire’s. We’d spend the morning making moolah and count our cash in hand earnings to spend at Aqua in the afternoon after lunch. Ah, those weekends. The irresponsibility of youth.
Part of the Beales group, Broads has survived for eons in its convenient location and sells everything you could need, from fashion accessories for men and women to clothes, soft furnishings to gifts, fine fragrances and cosmetics, there’s a cookshop and a bed and bathshop and a restaurant and café for when your legs refuse to carry you any longer. You can even order all your lovely things online too. It’s kind of like the Southport equivalent of Harrods or Lewis’s, obviously on a much smaller and simpler scale but that’s how much it’s shaped the Southport landscape. Definitely worth a browse.