John Walsh's

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John Walsh's (often shortened to Walsh's) was a family owned Department Store in Sheffield, England founded in 1899. On the morning of 19 June 1875, John Walsh opened a small Baby Linen and Ladies Outfitting shop, number 39 High Street, Sheffield, England. This store was to grow in to the department store for Sheffield for most of the twentieth century. It was destroyed by the Sheffield Blitz in 1940. By the time it was rebuilt in 1953 it had left family hands having been sold to Harrods in 1946. It was later renamed Rackhams and subsequently House of Fraser (upon their purchase of the Harrods group). It is now owned by T.J. Hughes.