Now, this is not a nostalgic rant for the past, but if you walk past pretty much any set of shops which have been around for a long time, most have suffered from changing fashions in shop design.
That said I was as guilty as anyone, back in the 1960s, in thinking that those old , tired looking shop fronts of the Victorian and Edwardian period should be swept away in favour of sleek and simple ones, with bold new lettering and big picture windows.
But I wonder now at all that new wave stuff, and what we have lost as a result.
Back in 1908 the shop front of J. R. Stephenson, would not have been so different from his neighbours, but that uniformity offered up a style which I rather think is very appealing.
I let you decide.
Location; Wilbraham Road
Picture; Wilbraham Road, 2020, from the collection of Andrew Simpson and advert forJ.R.Stevenson’s, 1908 from the Souvenir of the Grand Wesleyan Church Bazaar, 1908, courtesy of Philip Lloyd
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| Wilbraham Road, 2020 |
But I wonder now at all that new wave stuff, and what we have lost as a result.
Back in 1908 the shop front of J. R. Stephenson, would not have been so different from his neighbours, but that uniformity offered up a style which I rather think is very appealing.
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| Wibraham Road, 1908 |
Location; Wilbraham Road
Picture; Wilbraham Road, 2020, from the collection of Andrew Simpson and advert forJ.R.Stevenson’s, 1908 from the Souvenir of the Grand Wesleyan Church Bazaar, 1908, courtesy of Philip Lloyd
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