Watch: Memories of C&A's Leeds city centre store
C&A, known affectionately as 'Coats and Ats' opened its Boar Lane store in November 1970 and welcomed generations of bargain-hunters before closing in January 2001.
Your YEP visited the site of the Boar Lane store and spoke to city centre shoppers who remembered it with huge love and affection.
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Hide AdC&A takes its initials of the Dutch founders Clemens and August Brenninkmeyer who opened their first store in Holland in 1841.
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The C&A store in the White Rose Centre was taken by Littlewood’s in January 20001 as one of their 112 stores.
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