We have dug deep in the our photo archive to bring you the first days and opening days of 18 shops in Doncaster's Frenchgate.
Who can you spot queuing to meet the celebrity of the moment or watching the ribbon being cut?
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1. Tom Wood
The official opening of Tom Woods in the Frenchgate Centre in 1996, Jeanette Fish cut the ribbon watched on by Anne Molloy and Julie Higham Photo: submitted
2. Dorothy Perkins
Doncaster Mayor Councilor Yvonne Woodcock Officially opened new Dorothy Perkins Store at Frenchgate Centre in 1998 Photo: Submitted
3. Health and safety exhibition
Councillor Margaret Robinson, vice-chair of Doncaster Council's Environment, Health and Housing Board, is pictured with Wendy Nixon, DMBC's Principal Environmental Health Officer, after officially opening the exhibition highlighting the health and safety issues that result in back pain and musculosketal disorders back in 2000 at the Frenchgate Centre. Photo: Steve Taylor (staff)
4. Sustainability-More Than Just a Green Word
Helen Grant, of the Tidy Britain Group (right), chats to Amanda and David Chojnowski, of Hexthorpe, seen here with their four and a half month old son Joshua. Sustainability-More Than Just a Green Word, opened in the Frenchgate Centre in 2000 Photo: Steve Taylor (staff)