These famous names together boasted several thousand stores across the UK at their peak.
While those shops may be gone, their legacy is not forgotten.
Some of these businesses still trade online, while others have vanished completely, but they are the brands Britons are keenest to see return to the high street.
Liquidation Centre has analysed search data to determine the brands consumers most want to make a comeback.
Debenhams tops the list, with a monthly average of 415,000 online searches, while the other most-missed brands include Woolworths, Dorothy Perkins, BHS and Toys R Us.
Below are the lost shops UK consumers would most like to see reopen, with pictures showing them as we remember them, from the 1960s to the noughties.
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5. More than 100 years on the high street
Dorothy Perkins began life in 1909 as H. P. Newman, before changing its name in 1919. At itks peak, the fashion chain operated nearly 1,000 stores across the UK. Shoppers are pictured here outside a Dorothy Perkins shop in 1962. | Getty Images Photo: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive
6. Thorntons
Thorntons is the joint-third-most-missed UK high street brand. It was established in 1911 by Joseph Thornton and his son, William Joseph Thornton, in Sheffield. This photo shows the Thorntons Chocolate Kabin shop, on Norfolk Street, Sheffield, sometime during the 60s or 70s. | Picture Sheffield Photo: Picture Sheffield
7. Royal approval
Queen Elizabeth II is seen opening a new Thorntons chocolate factory in 1985. She is watching as Sue Gillott finishes the chocolates. | Sheffield Star
8. Cath Kidston
The fashion designer Cath Kidston opened her first shop in 1993, and her colourful, floral patterns proved hugely popular. At its peak, there were more than 100 stores around the UK, but its remaining stores closed in 2020, after the firm went into administration. It has been named as joint third in the list of brands UK shoppers would like to see return to the high street. | Getty Images Photo: Peter Macdiarmid