Mystery remains as Plymouth's House of Fraser partially reopens

Plymouth’s huge House of Fraser department store has partially reopened after being closed for 10 days without explanation. The six-story city centre building was open and trading again today after being - but shoppers could only access the first three floors. The third and fourth floors remained off limits, as did the Dingles Restaurant and the customer toilets on the top-most fifth floor.

The Cafe Nero outlet on the ground floor was also closed, but the remainder of that level, specialising in beauty and womenswear, was trading and busy with customers. The menswear first floor was also completely open, as was the womenswear second floor. But the children's wear, toys and homeware third floor and sportswear fourth floors were closed off with the escalators out of action.



The escalator from the second floor to the ground floor and the building’s lifts were also not operating. Staff inside the store were unable to comment to PlymouthLive, and certainly not on speculation that the closure was the result of a flood and a power outage. PlymouthLive has been contacting Frasers Group since the closure but has yet to receive any comment, let alone an explanation about what caused the shutdown.

Signs had been placed in windows saying the store was shut due to “unforeseen circumstances” but these were today replaced with ones that said: “We are open. At the present time the cafe and restaurant are unable to operate. Also there are no customer toilets available at present.

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