Every time I walk past 88, Dean Street – I do so quite often, walking down from the Elizabeth Line – I am amazed by number 88, a newsagents, which has a remarkably well preserved late Georgian shop front.
It’s not in bad condition, but today it appeared to be propped up, as if it might be about to collapse.
There can’t be very many surviving Georgian shop fronts with perfectly preserved rococo detail, long after rococo was fashionable.
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It is such a charmingly anachronistic story book type of building that I assumed it was some sort of 20th century bogus confection.
I bought fags and the Standard there every day from ‘73-‘80 working in 3 Carlisle St and tried to avoid standing too close to the tarts from St Annes Passage for fear of contagion!