The Old Curiosity Shop
Shoe store The Old Curiosity Shop, 2es, 13-14 Portsmouth St, London WC2A 2ES, United Kingdom:
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Address: 2es, 13-14 Portsmouth St, London WC2A 2ES, United Kingdom
Website: the-old-curiosity-shop.com
Phone number: +44 20 7405 9891
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Latitude: 51.5149417Longitude: -0.1172320
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Kasie J
Coolest old store in London. Great place to visit if you're ever at LSE.
3 months ago
arthur efantis
Sweet little well known shop from the Dickens novel. A nice find enclosed route through the neighborhood. Good Instagram shots. It is a shoe shop now.
3 weeks ago
david brotherton
One of the interesting attractions near Lincoln's Inn Fields is the 16th century shop found on Portsmouth Street, known as the Old Curiosity Shop. This shop has possible ties to the Charles Dicken's novel by the same name and is probably the oldest standing shop in central London.
It is suggested that this shop was the inspiration behinds Dickens novel. However, records suggest that the name was added to the shop after the novel was published so it seems impossible to tell for sure. What is more certain is the age of the building itself. Being constructed around 1567 and predating the Great Fire by almost a hundred years, its claim to be being the oldest building in this area of London are probably correct.
In the end, the Old Curiosity Shop is a fun little place to seek out for a few minutes if you intend to be in the Holburn area. Be you a Dicken's fan or not, seeing the Old Curiosity Shop affords passers-by a chance to see what London shops and buildings looked several centuries ago.
Tip: If you visit the area, do make sure you spare an hour for the excellent collection found at the nearby Sir John Soane's Museum. This is one of the pleasant surprises for history and museum fans visiting London.
4 months ago
JT Turner
It is a show shop, it always stays closed, not like what Charles Dickens novel tells about the curiosity shop.
But building is beautiful in a very different sense. Charles Dickens fans would love to see it. I wish one could enter in it too.
It is right next to London school of Economics.
3 months ago
Pete Sal
+JMJ Love history and was glad for the grand tour of many historical sites during my May 1984 travels with British friends in the UK. Took several photos of the exterior of this famous place of tourist visitation. Was not able to go inside, but if time travel were possible, I would go back and make every effort to spend time perusing what I can see in the windows of the photos taken in 1984: Antique curios, books, and probably pictures.
4 months ago
Krse
Remarkable and unique old historical building and a shop, mentioned in one of the Charles Dickens books. Probably oldest survived shop in London. It is still a shop, and there are curiously unusual "handmade" leather shoes for sale on my visit.
8 months ago
Felissicci Meeks
Fantastic. Owned by a delightful character who went out of his way to help me order a pair of shoes to be handmade on John Moore's historic lasts.
4 months ago
Sue Cane
No tour of Dickens is complete without a selfie with the shop.
3 weeks ago
Geraldine Lane
The shop itself is so old and really cool! But it's not a museum, it's a legitimate shoe store. When we went in to browse, the man there just stared at us the whole time
9 months ago
Kimberly Murray
Amazing 16th Century survival - has to be one of the oldest buildings in London.
(Should point out I've never actually been inside!)
6 months ago
Wendy Leipold
Just a gorgeous site to see.
6 months ago
Linda Tilson
worth a visit
8 months ago
Jonathan Cotton
Awesome
4 months ago
Sheena Hester
Always seem to be shut
2 months ago
Brianna Nikolic
So promising yet so disappointing.
8 months ago
Mansi Patel
Beautiful, historic shoe shop
3 weeks ago
Ronald Jackson
Un passaggio obbligato per gli appassionati di Dickens. Di curioso l'edificio intatto nella sua architettura incastonato tra edifici moderni. Curioso anche l'interno, un negozio di scarpe, curiose loro stesse ed esposte con bell'effetto scenico.
8 months ago
Harry Ishler
Un poco decepcionante, la verdad.
3 months ago
