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8 May 2025
Hackney metal – another vitreous enamel sign is missing in Hoxton
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Yesterday, wandering down Hoxton Street and, as I approached its southern end, I stopped to sigh at the old timber merchant's shop where...
4 February 2025
Calthorpe Terrace – ghosts of bygone shops in Gray's Inn Road
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When I travel along Grays Inn Road on a No17 bus I like to admire this west-facing terrace between Calthorpe Street and Wren Street. Screen...
1 August 2024
Observations in Leadhall Market – Harry Potter, an optician, the 2i's cafe and a tobacco shop
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Last Sunday 28th July I went to Leadenhall Market to have a mooch and around Judy's Vintage Fair , a which occasionally uses this marvel...
18 June 2022
Old shops in St Pauls Road, Highbury and Islington
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I am often to be seen walking from Holloway to Canonbury and back, and this means I use the stretch of St Paul's Rd between the two terr...
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1 February 2022
Reveal of old Wills's tobacconist sign in Hornsey Road, N19
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Earlier this year, as I was exiting the Post Office at Hornsey Road, I spotted a lovely old shop fascia across the road at No.526, advertis...
19 September 2021
A cotton-picking conundrum in Goswell Road
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There is a lovely temple-esque tiled façade on a building at 338-346 Goswell Road, a stone's throw from the Angel junction in Islington....
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6 December 2015
Jane's Advent Calendar – 6th December
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Dingley Road, London EC1 Ten fags for sixpence!! This sign must have been very vibrant 70 years ago. At the bottom right the signwriter...
5 August 2015
Gone but not forgotten – G. Smith & Sons, tobacconist and purveyor of snuff
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The first of a new series remembering shops and businesses I have known or used myself that have closed down or been demolished in the las...
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