Glitz is situated near the market in the town centre, it is a very small independent shop which…read morespecialises in gifts, fancy goods and items to decorate the home. The store tself is very small with basically one narrow walkway around a central display unit. If you are a wheelchair user or a mum with a buggy you will have no chance of getting around inside this store. For the size of the store there is quite an impressive amount of stock in there, pictures, mirrors, china, decorative pottery, artificial flower arrangements, as well as smaller items such as fashion jewellery, novelty items, and gift items such as silver christening gifts, crystal figures etc. Avoid this shop on busy saturday afternoons but if you are about on a quiet weekday then it is worth a look when you have room to move about and no queues to deal with.

This department store reminds me of just what quintessential department stores should be. Ornate,…read moreold, on a main street, looking pretty as can be, even more enticing at Christmas. And that's just what Broads and Booths is. Plus it holds great nostalgia for me, a pair of my friends used to busk outside it when I was working as a chambermaid at Squire's. We'd spend the morning making moolah and count our cash in hand earnings to spend at Aqua in the afternoon after lunch. Ah, those weekends. The irresponsibility of youth. Part of the Beales group, Broads has survived for eons in its convenient location and sells everything you could need, from fashion accessories for men and women to clothes, soft furnishings to gifts, fine fragrances and cosmetics, there's a cookshop and a bed and bathshop and a restaurant and café for when your legs refuse to carry you any longer. You can even order all your lovely things online too. It's kind of like the Southport equivalent of Harrods or Lewis's, obviously on a much smaller and simpler scale but that's how much it's shaped the Southport landscape. Definitely worth a browse.

This is actually called Bealls now but Je refuse to write a Bealls review. Broadbents and…read moreBoothroyds has so much more panache. I remember as a little girl being amazed at all the luxury items and then being herded off to Woolys. Upscale, the old staircases are still intact but alas alack a little too crowded for me. The spell is broken.