LONDONS LOST DEPARTMENT STORES (SAFE HAVEN)

The department store feels like an endangered species. But London has been losing them for decades – once every major high street had its landmark store, while the West End was full of them. This is your guide to a vanished world, from Art Nouveau Debenham & Freebody in Wigmore Street and Art Deco Simpson’s in Piccadilly, to Derry & Toms in Kensington (later Biba) with its roof garden, and the Modern lines of Holdrons at Peckham Rye (now Mr Khan’s Discount). Includes a walking tour of the lost stores of the West End.