Downtown Stillwater shop features decades-old architectural drawings
Walk past St. Croix Booksellers, and it won’t necessarily be the books that grab you. The window near the store’s main entrance is filled with hand-painted architectural drawings from the late 1800s.
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Leeds: An empty city centre shop – any ideas?
With the recession leaving towns and cities with as much as a quarter of their shops lying empty, it’s feared some high streets will never be the same again. Grant Woodwar
Read more on Yorkshire Evening Post
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