Stayin’ alive

Part of Closed for Good? The “Retail Apocalypse” in Britain since 2005 acknowledges large retailers who have survived, sometimes by sacrificing branches or high street locations. Here in Margate, an abandoned Primark sits alongside a row of other abandoned shops and banks, on both sides of the high street. Up the road in Cliftonville is one of the branches Boots has dropped in the course of its long search for a new owner.