The Brooks is a shopping centre in Winchester

Winchester

Winchester is a historic cathedral city and former capital city of England. It is the county town of Hampshire, in South East England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government district, and is located at the western end of the South Downs, along the course of...

, Hampshire

Hampshire

Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...

, England. It was opened in the early 1990s and remains the only indoor shopping centre in Winchester. The city centre development was constructed to a very Postmodern design and the centre was criticised from the beginning for being 'spartan' and not a proper indoor shopping centre. Unlike most other shopping centres at the time, which were fully enclosed, heated and had tiled floors, The Brooks had a pavement-style stone floor throughout and while it had a glazed roof, there were no doors, allowing the elements to enter the centre.

The Brooks Centre has a car park beneath the shopping malls, which themselves are laid out across two levels. Anchor stores included:

• BHS
• Beales department store
• Argos
  Argos (retailer)
  Argos is the largest general-goods retailer in the United Kingdom and Ireland with over 800 stores. It is unique amongst major retailers in the UK in that it is a catalogue merchant...
  
  

In April 2010 BHS closed its doors for the last time 1 to be replaced by Primark

Primark

Primark is a clothing retailer, operating over 223 stores in Ireland , the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Belgium...