A raft of UK retailers have shut their doors this year. Credit: PA
High street retailers across the UK started 2020 facing tough conditions with customers increasingly looked towards online competitors - but no-one could have predicted the level of turmoil in store.
The coronavirus pandemic led to temporary closures, social distancing and dwindling tourist numbers, which all weighed on UK towns and cities.
A raft of retailers cut jobs, closed stores and secured restructuring deals to survive.
However, for some companies, none of these measures were sufficient to preserve their place on the high street.
Here s a list of the biggest retailers to disappear from our high streets this year:
The beloved retailers which disappeared from the UK High Street in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic
Mothercare was the year s first major casualty, shutting the doors of its UK stores for good after 59 years
The 139-year-old department store chain Beales opened its doors for the final time in March
Shoe retailer Oliver Sweeney shuttered all its stores for good after hiring administrators during the summer
The big name shops lost forever in 2020 - and the ones that could be next
Some of them had been around for more than 100 years
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