The
Old Curiosity Shop immortalised by Charles Dickens
London
Picture Gallery
Dicken's
novel The Old Curiosity Shop, published in weekly installments starting
in April 1840, was said to be inspired by this building at 13 - 14 Portsmouth
Street, London
WC2, which dates from around 1567.
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London
Pictures
This
picture of the Old Curiosity Shop was taken in the late 1970's.
An earlier picture of the building taken early in the 20th
century
is
found here.
To
find more about Dicken's London, see David Perdue's excellent
Map
of Dickens London.
Picture
of the The Old Curiosity Shop ©2003
by James Martin.
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