IT will be the end of an era on Tuesday when one of the town’s oldest retailers closes.
WH Smith is among a dozen businesses on Cheapside and May Day Green leaving the Metropolitan Centre this month so the council can press ahead with refurbishment of the building as part of the Better Barnsley regeneration.
It has been in Barnsley since before the First Wold War - establishing itself as bookseller WH Smith and Son on Market Hill in 1906. It remained there until 1973 when the business moved to the newly built Metropolitan Centre, where it has stayed.
Staff at the Cheapside store were this week busy preparing for shut down, packing books into boxes on the upper floor and clearing shelves in readiness for the doors being locked for the final time.
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