For generations a much loved department store was once the go-to for Christmas shopping and a spot of luxurious lunch.
Beatties on Grange Road in Birkenhead was a department store where shoppers could find everything they wanted from perfume, to makeup to haberdashery and toys. It even boasted a silver service restaurant where white gloved waiting staff served lunch to hungry shoppers.
Before opening as Beatties, the store was once Allansons, another department store. Beatties was founded in 1877 and had grown from a small family drapery business in Wolverhampton to a department store with an excellent reputation for customer service.
