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Retailer announcements
April 2008Time Was toys and collectables, and Gente Bella both open in the The Buttermarket.March 2008Franchise eatery Subway opens in the former Toymaster store in Stodman Street.The Craft Chain has moved out of Chain Lane and
Splash on Cartergate is now being advertised as a unit available to rent.
F1 computer services on Bridge street
has also closed it's Newark branch.
February 2008Belvior lettings agents have moved to
Cartergate,
as Muse Portrait Studio
expands into their vacant Market Place unit.
Mannuca gift shop is now open in the former home of la gift
in the The Arcade,
and great to see more empty units being occupied on
Bridge Street
as id femme moves into 17,
and Envy expands into number 15
(the former hft and oxygen units respectively).
January 2008First retail casualties of the new year are
Embodiment
on
Middlegate,
one of the last dedicated lingerie
stores in Newark, and
the gift shop Earth Works which now leaves empty premises on
Boar Lane.
Toy store
Amuse me Toys
also closes its retail premises in
Queens Head Court.
New blood comes in the form of Italian restaurant
Via Italiano
which opens in the former 'Eldin and Son' shop on
Stodman Street,
and
Ann et Vin
expands to include a wine bar and coffee shop called The Courtyard.
November 2007Not much change on the high street as local retailers bed in for their annual make-or-break christmas period.
Heavens Scent, one of few florists
in Newark, has closed it's doors.
October 2007
The Curio Café on
Castlegate
has changed ownership, becoming the
Salt Seafood Restaurant.
Baby Equipment stockist
Tiny Tots
opens on
Boar Lane
but in the same street, family owned cycle store
Dyak Cycles has closed down.
Ladies Only Gym Franchise
Gymophobics
opens it's next unit on
Cartergate,
while
HFT charity shop leave another
vacant unit
on
Bridge Street.
Handmade bathtime product shop
Bubbles Bathtime
opens in theThe Buttermarket,
but Curtains & Blinds, African Images and Oasis are all gone.
Duffield Opticians moves from Mount Lane into the unit in
Stodman Street,
(formerly Maysoon Boutique),
and work beings on #50
(an Italian Restaurant, formerly Eldin & Son leather goods).
And in
St.Marks Place, the
Supercuts chain moves into the long vacant #2 unit,
Pet Foods Plus opens next to M&S,
and
Huk menswear fills the former No Angel location.
September 2007
New delicatesson
lily's olive tree
moves into the former Pandoras Box unit in
Church Street
The Woolwich building society on
Middlegate
is now empty, whereas on the same street
j.111 designs
moves into number 6,
the long-term
vacant unit
of A.Snaith & Son.
Also,
new shoe store
Sole Passion
has finally filled the old
John Anthony Shoes site on
Kirkgate,
and after almost 2 year upstairs,
Aura Boutique
has moved downstairs in The Buttermarket,
expanding into the larger unit formerly occupied by Cottage Frames who are no more...
August 2007
The H Samuel jewellery store on Stodman Street is replaced by the three mobile phone shop.
The White Hart
restaurant & wine bar reopens after refurbishment. July 2007
Sadly,
la-gift closes due to bereavement.
May 2007
Pandoras Box closes on
Church Street,
but is understood to already be under offer to a niche start-up business.
Meanwhile
The Fone Doctor
opens on Kirkgate,
and RE/MAX
estate agents on
Barnbygate
rebrands to Jon Brambles, the name of the owner.
April 2007
A fashion makeover! Oxygen relocates from Bridge Street into Kirkgate and No Angel moves up one unit, into the former home of R & K Records on Clinton Arms Court March 2007
New venture Fair & Green
moves into The Buttermarket.
Adams Kids closes in the Saint Marks Place.
February 2007
The annual post-xmas shuffle:
King Oliver Cards has vacated The Arcade,
and Stitch Express moves in 2 doors up.
The last independent record store in the town centre, R & K Records, begins a closing down sale...
January 2007
Newtonderry relocates from Middlegate into the former home of Stratfords on Kirkgate.
The empty premises is expected to be the new location of Oxygen, which will move from Bridge Street.
December 2006
Starbucks opens it's doors on the Market Square,
and new local venture The Teeth Whitening Centre
opens in White Hart Yard.
November 2006
Not much change on the high street as local retailers bed in for their annual make-or-break christmas period.
Amuse Me Toys
opens in Chain Lane, in the former premises of Brigittes.
October 2006
The chains are coming...
Starbucks are in the process of aquiring the large empty unit in the market square,
while Pizza Hut look into 51 Stodman Street.
September 2006
New clothing and lifestyle store
Yo-Yo
opens in Stodman Street, in the former Sue Ryder premises.
Next door, Boutique Maysoon closes.
Together with the empty Eldin and Sons, Woolpack Inn, and Toymaster,
the south side of Stodman street is starting to look very desolate...
Hairdo's
hairdressers relocates into St. Marks Place in the former Alwyns site.
August 2006
Designer clothes store
J.III Designs
moves into the Buttermarket.
And after just 3 months of trading
The Baily Gallery
moves back out of Kirkgate.
July 2006
Craft store
The Craft Chain
moves into the Chain Lane site formerly occupied by Hopscotch. The Country Kitchen Café on Appletongate has been transformed under new ownership into Thyme Out. June 2006
Gift shop
23 Sheep
expands in the Buttermarket, by moving from #19 to the larger unit #7. The Baily Gallery moves into Kirkgate. For the first time, the Newark Farmer's Market moves days to coincide with the main Wednesday Market. Meanwhile on Stodman Street, Eldin & Son leather goods, announces it's forthcoming closure. March 2006
Ladies fashion chains Monsoon and Accessorize open stores on Stodman Street,
replacing Iceland which closed down in 2005.
Independent interiors store La Di Da disappears from Middlegate. All change upstairs in the Buttermarket as The Buttermarket Café re-opens under new management, replacing the former Marketplatz Café within a week! Whites fine food and wine shop opens in Appletongate, in the property that was previously Ian G. Howe Wine Merchants. Another fashion chain CC (Country Casuals) opens a store on Middlegate, while on the corner of Stodman Street, telephone chain Orange moves into the old home of Johnsons Dry Cleaners. February 2006
The Kirkgate shoe retailer Stratfords of Newark enters administration. In Stodman Street, the Toymaster store and it's public house neighbour The Woolpack Inn have been found closed, as has the gift shop Hopscotch in Chain Lane. Mark Jarvis racing service moves into a larger store on the corner of Middlegate and Kirkgate. January 2006
Heartof launches.
After 36 years Ian G. Howe Wine Merchant closes it's Appletongate store due to retirement. |
Heartof Updates
Newark Timeline
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