[Gayle]

Absolutely Ianto.

Bramwells would come under the category of 'specialist' shops. The town was built by specialist shops - Bramwell's, Wardleworths etc etc then a few of the big guns came in Principles, Dorothy Perkins, Burtons etc and took up valuable retail space. So they built the Arndale so that the could squash more of them in. This pushed the price up for smaller independent shops and so they closed and moved out. Then the big guns realised that they couldn't sustain the place all on their own so started closing down or moving into smaller spaces.