Tesco as it looked before it was demolished in 2009.  The cleared area in the photo below was the former Focus DIY store. This was the first to go in late 2008.

The main Lichfield Post Office as it stood in 1996. After demolition Lichfield was left without a city centre post office until the rebuild was complete. A post office then opened next to Clintons cards.  The loading area of the...

The Wilkinson store moved from its shopping precinct location in the 1990s to its present site. The location was once the home of the Motorist Discount Centre. 

Levetts Square as it is today. When the shopping precinct was redeveloped the plan was to have all the shopping centre covered, as with many things in Lichfield they only managed to do it with this part. 

On 26 November 2008, trading of shares in Woolworths Group plc was suspended, and its Woolworths and Entertainment UK subsidiaries entered administration. Sadly all 807 Woolworths stores closed between 27 December 2008 and 6 January...

Boswell is represented with his sword by his side, notebook under his arm, and walking stick held behind his back.The face of Boswell is taken from a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and his figure and costume from Langton’s sketch of...

Born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, Johnson attended Pembroke College, Oxford for just over a year, before his lack of funds forced him to leave. After working as a teacher, he moved to London, where he began to write for The...

James Boswell was a Scottish biographer and diarist, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for the biography he wrote of one of his contemporaries, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, which the modern Johnsonian critic Harold Bloom...