There are two journeys I’ll need to make after reading Tessa Boase’s heartbreakingly poignant book about London’s lost department stores. First, to Mile End, to see the tiny Georgian building bang in the middle of the pillared façade of what used to be Wickhams and is now Tesco and Sports Direct.
Ysenda Maxtone Graham
The glamour and romance of London’s vanished department stores
The loss of so many buildings whose dazzling interiors once captivated the public makes for heartrending reading
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