Waterstones (Bradford)

Waterstones, The Wool Exchange, Hustlergate, Bradford, West Yorkshire, 2014 • I assumed this was an ex-church, but in fact it’s Bradford’s old wool exchange. Now that bookshops are going the way of wool exchanges, it’s nice to see such a grand one hanging on…

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Lee @ Designed By Good People says:

2014/04/29 at 11:53

The W must stand for WOW!

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- Vici MacDonald says:
  
  2014/04/29 at 11:54
  
  Or WTF!
  
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By Vici MacDonald
On 2014/04/29
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2014, Bradford, Shopfront Elegy, West Yorkshire

books, grandeur

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