{"id":42046,"date":"2024-12-13T14:12:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T14:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=42046"},"modified":"2026-06-15T14:48:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:48:43","slug":"baths-beloved-department-store-to-close-after-200-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2024\/12\/13\/baths-beloved-department-store-to-close-after-200-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Bath’s beloved department store to close after 200 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Milsom Street, Bath – Photo by Alex McGregor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Jolly’s department store in Bath is shutting according to signs put up in the shop that advertised closing down discounts of 20%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bath and North East Somerset Council (BANES) owns the site and has plans to involve a “third-party occupier”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after Bristol’s Cabot Circus closed its doors to House of Fraser store in August and after a 0.7% drop in sales for clothing shops according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BANES said<\/a> in the last six years, the authority has been “working hard to ensure a secure future for this flagship store at the heart of the Milsom Quarter”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“While plans are at an advanced stage with a third party occupier, the council is not in a position to make a formal statement at this time in relation to its proposals for the future of one of Bath\u2019s most important department stores”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their is outrage among readers<\/a> regarding the circumstances of its closure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding the third-party occupier, one reader commented “Could be just what is needed. Jolly’s is well past its sell-by date”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One reader expressed frustration in the stores high prices “There\u2019s a cost of living crisis and many of their price tags look like jokes”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another commenter expressed confusion in the council’s statement, saying: “Making the store a staple of milsom Street but closing the road. Insanity prevails”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jolly’s department store in Bath is shutting according to signs put up in the shop that advertised closing down discounts of 20%. Bath and North East Somerset Council (BANES) owns the site and has plans to involve a “third-party occupier”. This comes after Bristol’s Cabot Circus closed its doors to House of Fraser store in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":42138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42046"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42152,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42046\/revisions\/42152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}