Kendals proudly stood on Deansgate for over 170 years before it was renamed House of Fraser. During the department store's time, many Greater Manchester families have walked through its doors - to shop work and dine - with generations making memories in the building.
With concessions selling designer items, an underground food hall, beauty counters, extravagant window displays, Santa's Grotto in the run-up to Christmas, and then the big sales afterwards, the festive season was always a special time of year for the store in its glory days.
But at this point in time it's not known if this Christmas will be its last as a department store. House of Fraser is on a rolling six-month lease, and a refurb - that would bring offices to the huge, iconic, Grade II-listed Art Deco building on the west side of Deansgate - could begin in weeks.
