In the mid-1980s, the Port Arcades, a covered shopping mall was built in the town centre, which complemented the erection of Lewis's store which was bought out by Asda prior to the completion of the Port Arcades.

Lewis's Topography of 1834 claimed the town " consists chiefly of one irregular street, and contains 106 houses indifferently built, retaining no trace of its ancient importance ".

Other large Manchester stores included Paulden's ( currently Debenhams ) and Lewis's ( now a Primark ).

The city was host to numerous department stores, including: Lewis's, Owen Owen, Blacklers, Bunney's, George Henry Lee, Hendersons, John Lewis and TJ Hughes.

By 1956, Lewis's had the largest stores in the provinces of the UK.

The remaining Oxford Street store was acquired in 1951 by the Liverpool-based Lewis's chain of department stores, which was in turn taken over in 1965 by the Sears Group owned by Charles Clore.

* Lewis's, chain of department stores in England and Scotland ( 1856-1990s ), originating in Liverpool

It has also been criticised for alienating local businesses ( such as Lewis's Department Store, Rapid Hardware and the stores on Bold Street ), and for shifting Liverpool's Shopping District ( resulting in a lot of empty units around Church Street, Lime Street, Ranelagh Street, Bold Street ).

In September 1996 Allders purchased a number of department stores from the Owen Owen group that traded under the Lewis's and Owen Owen names.

* Leeds ( former Lewis's ; closed 2005 ; subsequently divided for mixed use including stores for Sainsbury's and T. K.

It was formerly the flagship of a chain of department stores under the Lewis's name, that operated from 1856 to 1991, when the company went into administration.

Several stores in the chain were bought by the company Owen Owen and continued to operate under the Lewis's brand name for several years.

Lewis's were generally among the largest department stores in their respective localities.

This resulted in Liverpool competitor Owen Owen buying up several branches of Lewis's ( but retaining the Lewis's brand name on those purchased stores ); Sir Philip Green revived the selling of toys on a large scale, by launching the brand Kids HQ in four Lewis's Owen Owen Stores, including those in Liverpool and Manchester.

Lewis's experimented in new ways of advertising ( such as flooding the basement of the Manchester store to create a mini Venice.

Primark in the Former Lewis's Building in Manchester city centre, the largest store worldwide

After the closure of the Manchester store in 2001, only the original Liverpool store continued to trade under the Lewis's name.

The first Lewis's outside Liverpool opened in nearby Manchester in 1877, and another, by personal suggestion from Joseph Chamberlain on his new Corporation Street in Birmingham in 1885.

After the 1996 Manchester bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Manchester, trading space in Lewis's was rented to Marks & Spencer and other smaller retailers displaced following heavy damage to the Corn Exchange.

* Lewis's Directory for the Towns of Manchester and Salford for the Year 1788.

Manchester: Lewis's, ( Text of Edmond Holme's original directory republished with map of Old Manchester and Salford.

British Library catalogue dates as which is perhaps too early: Lewis's Manchester store was established in 1877, having been founded in Liverpool in 1856.

Lewis's account of convention received an extended critique in Margaret Gilbert's On Social Facts ( 1989 ), where an alternative account is offered.

Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ( 1950 ), Raymond Briggs's Father Christmas ( 1973 ) and the translation from French of Jean de Brunhoff's Babar and Father Christmas ( originally Babar et le père Noël, 1941 ).

In Lewis's 2005 book Dean and Me ( A Love Story ), Lewis wrote of his kinship with Martin, who died in 1995.

While Captain Kangaroo was still in planning stages, CBS executives had the idea of hiring Al Lewis, a kids ' show host in Cincinnati ( ABC was running Lewis's show at that time ), to host their show, but Lewis's managers refused to release him from his contract.

He appeared in more than 90 films, including The Great Imposter ( 1961 ), Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds ( as the man helping the Tippi Hedren character with her rental boat ), Jerry Lewis's The Nutty Professor ( 1963 ), Pocketful Of Miracles ( 1961 ) and, in a cameo, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

Some critics cite Joseph H. Lewis's Gun Crazy, a 1950 film noir about a bank-robbing couple ( also based loosely on the real Bonnie and Clyde ), as a major influence on this film.

According to Boulard ( 1998 ), " the most chilling and uncanny treatment of Huey by a writer came with Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here.

Since the publication of Anthony Julius's T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form ( 1995, revised 2003 ), where Lewis's anti-semitism is described as " essentially trivial ", this view is no longer taken seriously.

According to Boulard ( 1998 ), " the most chilling and uncanny treatment of Huey by a writer came with Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here.

* The Kid ( 2010 film ), an adaptation of Kevin Lewis's book of the same name, directed by Nick Moran

Some well-known soul jazz recordings are Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder ( 1963 ), Herbie Hancock's " Cantaloupe Island " ( 1964 ) ( which was popularized further when sampled by US3 on " Cantaloop ( Flip Fantasia )"), Horace Silver's " Song for My Father " ( 1964 ) ( quoted by Steely Dan in their " Rikki Don't Lose That Number "), Ramsey Lewis's " The In Crowd " ( a top-five hit in 1965 ), and Cannonball Adderley's " Mercy, Mercy, Mercy " ( 1966 ) ( also popularized further when covered as a top 40 pop song by The Buckinghams ).

The Supreme Grand Lodge meets annually, often in Lachute, Quebec, Canada ( however, in August 2009 the Supreme Board met in Toulouse, France, in honor of the 100th Anniversary of H. Spencer Lewis's initiation there ), and is responsible for the worldwide coordination of AMORC, the establishment of new administrations, and the appointment of jurisdictions to Grand Lodges, usually based on language.

A hierarchical version of Gabriel Kron's Network Tearing was published by Keith Bowden ( 1991 ), reflecting David Lewis's ideas on Gunk.

When the series ended Wolfe and Chesney followed it with Don't Drink the Water ( 1974 / 75 ), which starred Stephen Lewis's Blakey abroad in Spain, which lasted for two series.

* Louis Comfort Tiffany ( 1848 – 1933 ), Charles Lewis's son, stained glass and jewelry artist, later associated with Tiffany & Co.

Musically, according to Ricky Vincent, author of Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One ( 1996 ), Jam and Lewis's collaboration with her is said to be one of the high points of the 1980s, as they redefined dance music by mixing a youthful sound with industrial-strength beats.

The group's first and final store, in Liverpool, went into administration in 2007 and was purchased as a going concern by Vergo Retail Limited, enabling the store to continue trading under the Lewis's brand.

People in Liverpool, however, nicknamed his nude male sculpture over the door of Lewis's department store " Dickie Lewis ".

Lewis's Department Store, Liverpool

Lewis's was a large department store in Liverpool city centre.

For Christmas 2010 and beyond, the Lewis's grotto manager, Display Team and staff have moved the Famous Lewis's Christmas Grotto to the 4th Floor of Rapid Hardware ( also in Liverpool ).

The first Lewis's was opened in 1856 in Liverpool by entrepreneur David Lewis, as a men's and boys ' clothing store, mostly manufacturing his own stock.

Also in 1879, Lewis's opened one of the world's first " Christmas grottoes " in Lewis's Bon Marché, Church Street, Liverpool.

The last store to trade as Lewis's was the Liverpool original.

The Liverpool Lewis's building retains original lifts which have no controls for shoppers, instead everything is controlled by a lift operator who works from a fold-down seating platform next to a lever they use to control the lift.

* Lewis's Famous Christmas Grotto at Rapid, Liverpool

The library was funded by a donation of £ 100, 000 by Harold Cohen, chairman of Lewis's department store and the son of a former Lord Mayor of Liverpool.