Built in 1864, 39-45 Well Street in Bradford - above - was used as wool warehouses, built for the yarn merchants Heymann & Alexander. Lewis Heymann came from Hamburg in Germany, as did many of the people who owned businesses in the area, hence why this area of Bradford is called Little Germany. It was one of fifty wool warehouses there. The building became Grade II listed in 1983, and it’s now - not that you’d know it - an exclusive set of apartments, even if the picture of it, taken over...
