| Company type | Department store |
|---|---|
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 1901 |
| Defunct | 1996 |
| Fate | Takeover by House of Fraser |
| Headquarters | Leeds, England |
Key people | Snowden Schofield, Ronald Schofield (Snowden's son, died 1969), Peter Dawson Schofield, (Snowden's son, died 1996) |
Schofields was a department store that operated on the Headrow in Leeds, England, from 1901 to 1996. For much of the 20th century Schofields was regarded as being the pinnacle of shopping in Leeds city centre.[1]
The site is now home to The Core, formerly The Headrow Centre.[2] Schofields also had department stores in Harrogate (an acquisition of a former Debenhams department store, named Cresta House, on James Street), Skipton (an acquisition of the former Ledgard & Wynn department store) (closed 1986)[3] and Sheffield (a 1972 acquisition of the Cockaynes department store on Angel Street).[4] The Sheffield store closed in 1982[5] and now trades as Argos on the ground floor with offices on the upper floors and the Harrogate branch now trades as Hoopers. The only visible evidence pointing to the existence of Schofields in Leeds was a NCP multi-storey car park, located near to the former department store premises, on Albion Street that continued to use the name of 'Schofields Car Park' despite the demise of this department store (but was rebranded in 2009 as "The Core" car park).