This sort of thing happens a lot iin Cornwall, where no-one can be bothered redeveloping anything, but the end result is more of a slow degradation, and a lot of corrugated iron. More pertinent to the question, I remember when I was v. small there was this ancient chemists with the wonderful name of Woollatt and Coggin, something of a scary Aladdin's Cave it was run by this bent over little old guy with round glasses. Then a superdrug opened, and that was the end of the that.
― Matt (Matt), Friday, 4 April 2003 19:51 (twenty-one years ago) link