THESE images show the current state of what was once one of Glasgow’s busiest department stores.
Debenhams on Argyle Street has been shut for three years after the high street giant closed all of its shops across the UK.
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Littered with unsold clothes, a creepy ‘mannequin room’ and an entire floor of abandoned beauty counters, the famous Argyle Street department store looks nothing like how it once was.
And now the entire contents that still remain preserved within the B-listed building have been listed for auction.
Over 400 lots have be uploaded for sale by a Doncaster-based commercial auction company NCM actions.
Punters can bid on items such as fixtures and fittings from the concession stores, to a job-lot of mannequins, from a sale rail of clothing from Miss Selfridge.
They can also buy the entire security computer room, soft furnishings, coffee machines or a double vanity table by beauty brand TooFaced.
There are also plenty of Christmas decorations and even giant Lego cut outs of characters from the Disney movie Frozen.
The auction ends on Thursday (January 18) at 1pm, with viewing dates prior to then by appointment only.
Locals weren’t able to even say goodbye to the 243-year-old business when left Glasgow in February 2021.
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Debenhams became untenable during the Covid pandemic as ‘non-essential’ shops were forced to close due to restrictions for long periods of time.
The high street chain was later bought by online retailer Boohoo in a £55million deal that only included the Debenhams name and website.
The 118 physical Debenhams stores, and their 12,000 employees, were not part of the deal – and the Glasgow store, alongside the other 14 Scots branches, never reopened again.
The auction comes 18 months after planners at Glasgow City Council approved permission for the former store to be transformed into offices with a rooftop bar and restaurant.
The former Lewis’s Department Store will be redeveloped as part of a wider £50million plan for the St Enoch Centre, including 1,700 new homes and a four-star hotel.
The plans would see developers knock down St Enoch in four stages over 10 to 20 years.
The redevelopment follows proposals to demolish the Buchanan Galleries as part of a massive £800 million redevelopment.
