Store now closed, Gaolgate Street, Stafford
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Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 16 Aug 2017
You have to go close up to see the information that this was a Marks and Spencer store, the business having moved to the new Waterfront Shopping Centre in 2015. The store appears to have been an M&S original, probably from the 1930s, in their preferred neoclassical style in ashlar.