St. Anns is a
shopping centre
A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre (Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof.
The first known collec ...
in
Harrow town centre
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in Greater London, England. It has two entrances, one on College Road opposite
Harrow-on-the-Hill station
Harrow-on-the-Hill is an interchange railway station in Harrow, served by suburban London Underground Metropolitan line services and commuter National Rail services on the London–Aylesbury line. It is down the line from . Harrow-on-the-Hil ...
and another on the pedestrianised St Anns Road. The centre was opened in 1987 and currently covers 280,000 square feet of retail space.
Like the St Anns Road street it is on, the centre does not officially use an apostrophe for "Ann".
History
The shopping centre was officially opened by
Diana, Princess of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) and mother of Princes William and Harry. Her ac ...
on 18 November 1987. Many buildings were demolished to make way for the centre, including
Heathfield School for Girls, which moved to
Pinner
Pinner is a London suburb in the London borough of Harrow, Greater London, England, northwest of Charing Cross, close to the border with Hillingdon, historically in the county of Middlesex. The population was 31,130 in 2011.
Originally a med ...
in 1982, and the old Greenhill School – the site of which is now occupied by Marks & Spencer.
The steps at the St Anns Road entrance were removed in the mid-2010s to improve accessibility, which included repaving of the road.
Stores
St Anns is home to over 40
high street
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brand
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s including
H&M,
Primark
Primark Stores Limited (; trading as Penneys in the Republic of Ireland) is an Irish multinational fast fashion retailer with headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. It has stores across Europe and in the United States. The Penneys brand is not u ...
,
M&S,
Boots
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Boot or Boots may also refer to:
Businesses
* Boot Inn, Chester, Cheshire, England
* Boots (company), a high-street pharmacy chain and manufacturer of pharmaceuticals in the United Kingdom
* The Boot, Cromer Stre ...
and
WHSmith
WHSmith (also written WH Smith, and known colloquially as Smith's and formerly as W. H. Smith & Son) is a British retailer, headquartered in Swindon, England, which operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and m ...
, along with a dedicated
food court
A food court (in Asia-Pacific also called food hall or hawker centre) is generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve dinner. I ...
on the second floor which includes a
Burger King
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,
Pizza Hut
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,
KFC
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, Treatz Desert Palour and
Subway.
The large Primark store was originally
British Home Stores
British Home Stores, commonly abbreviated to BHS and latterly legally styled BHS Ltd, was a British department store chain, primarily selling clothing and household items. In its later years, the company began to expand into furniture, electron ...
(BHS) until the retailer's collapse in 2016. Primark moved from its original smaller location at the centre which was originally a
C&A store before it was bought by Primark following C&A's departure from the British market. Following the Primark move, a
Lidl
Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG (; ) is a German international discount retailer chain that operates over 11,000 stores across Europe and the United States. Headquartered in Neckarsulm, Baden-Württemberg, the company belongs to the Schwarz Group, whi ...
supermarket took its place in 2019.
See also
*
St George's Shopping Centre, Harrow
St George's is a covered shopping centre in Harrow, Greater London, which opened in 1996. It is located at St Anns Road in the town centre nearby but separate from the St Anns centre. As of 2015 the centre has 30 units for retail, leisure and res ...
References
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Shopping centres in the London Borough of Harrow
Shopping malls established in 1987