The Tower of Babel – Shop of the Day 01As promised I will be blogging a ‘Shop of the Day’ every day until the Tower opens. I will endeavour to give you a bit of background to the shop if possible. All these photographs that I will be putting up have been Photoshopped ready to make into ceramic transfers.Let me know your favourite shops…
The Tower of Babel – Shop of the Day No.46Staying on the outskirts of London to the East, near Wanstead E18 for all your sun blocking, window dressing needs.
The Tower of Babel – Shop of the Day No.62Brixton, long may Brixton stay as it is. I was there yesterday showing an American visitor around London. Difficult to articulate but it feels like you are simultaneously visiting every part of the world all at the same time.Here’s a butcher. A noted feature on all the shops on the Tower is if the have the old style phone number. 01 was...
The Tower of Babel – Shop of the Day No.67We’re climbing up the Tower! To Greenwich today. This one combines 2 of my favourites – bike shop and the sub genre of shop signs with missing letters.
The Tower of Babel – Shop of the Day 124From foot to head – let’s delve into the hairdressing establishments of the capital this week. 1st up Morning Lane, Hackney. Yuppies! The term ‘young urban professional’ or ‘young upwardly-mobile professional’ is ‘ a young university educated adult who has a job that pays a lot of money and who lives in a large city’ First used in the ’80’s why...
The Tower of Babel – Shop of the Day No. 78Rising up the Tower and today my favourite supermarket – well not this exact one but the TFC – Turkish Food Centre is brilliant, green grocer with lovely fruit especially in the summer, lovely fresh pide (turkish bread), butcher with amazing things like sheep heads and sheep testicles (something I’m yet to try…). Anyway one opened a few years...
The Tower of Babel – Shop of the Day No.49Hairdresser’s, Church and Car Dealers at the same address well done #Peckham, who says space is tight in the capital?
The Tower of Babel – Shop of the Day No.85…The Baker….182-184 Stamford Hill, N16. Kosher Bakery in Stamford Hill, an area particularly known for its 30,000 Hasidic Jews, making it the largest concentration of Haredi Jews in Europe.
The Tower of Babel – Shop of the Day 103Vintage, clothes, records and gay sauna yesterday to Jewish grocer today. Love London. We’re in Stamford Hill and at this famous shop. I have had many people ask if it will be in The Tower. Love the signage, brilliant font. The shop dates back to 1948 and has been run by the same family since 1969, a few years ago there was a terrible fire but...
The Tower of Babel – Shop of the day No.35The reason I went to Rotherhithe! Keeping demin on denim alive
