The store adopted the name Bournes before closing in 1983.
The site is now occupied by Poundland.
Bourne and Hollingsworth.
C&A
The shop had first appeared in Southampton in the September of 1936, but the building was destroyed in an air raid on the night of November 30, 1940.
For almost all of the next seven years shoppers had to make do without C&A.
The new store, opposite the Civic Centre and just a few minutes' walk from the former Hants and Dorset bus station, boasted more than 20,000 sq ft of showroom space and employed 80 members of staff.
With its huge, glass-fronted arcades stretching back beneath the canopied facade, the new store was an immediate hit with customers and soon a men's department was