• Sheffield is leading the way on reuse of old department stores | Letter

    The decision to list the city’s Cole Brothers store was the right one for both the economy and the climate, say architecture and heritage campaignersHistoric England’s new focus on protecting department stores is most timely and necessary (More department stores in England may be given protected status, 23 August). The just-listed Cole Brothers store in Sheffield was John Lewis’s 1963 response to modern rebuilding by blitzed competitors in Sheffield, of which the architectural

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