A SPECIAL event is being held on Sunday to mark the closing of the last outpost of Liverpool’s oldest department store.

Photographer Stephen King’s exhibition Lewis’s Fifth Floor: A Department Story, showing images of the building’s forgotten spaces, finishes its run this weekend.

The Farewell to Lewis’s event will take place from 1-3pm at the National Conservation Centre and will feature music and afternoon tea.

Visitors are invited to take along their own images of the department store, which closed earlier this summer, to be scanned by the exhibition team.

Attracting more than 37,000 people, King’s first solo exhibition documents his visits to the store’s “lost” fifth floor, which was closed to the public in the early 1980s.

Included are photographs of the cafeteria with its Grade II-listed hand-painted ceramic tile work and the 1970s hair salon, where singer Shirley Bassey is believed to have sent her wigs to be styled.

Nicky Lewis, National Museums Liverpool curator, says: “Stephen’s exhibition and the Lewis’s project as a whole has built on this affection and worked to create something that will leave a lasting legacy of this Liverpool institution.

“He has worked to produce some beautiful photography, and collected memories which will mark the city’s love of Lewis’s forever.”