Shops in Carnaby Street
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Shops in Carnaby Street
Shops in Carnaby Street
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SC_PHL_01_453_79_318 (Collage 128538)
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London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
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A view of the fronts of four-storey buildings at 40-43 Carnaby Street, Soho, by the turning into Ganton Street. Dominating the scene on the corner is the fashionable menswear shop Lord John at number 43 Carnaby Street. Lord John which was opened by David and Warren Gold in 1964 was at the forefront of 1960s fashion and famous customers included The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. In 2017 a plaque commemorating the famous shop was placed onto the side of number 43. Until around the mid-1960s, the Victorian building at number 43 was a pub known as the Coach and Horses. Further down Carnaby Street at numbers 40-42 are neighouring clothes shops, including one called USA at number 42. Suits and clothes for sale are visible in the windows of Lord John and hanging from rails in the neighbouring shops. On the far left of the photograph is a five-storey warehouse building at number 22 Ganton Street built c1920s-c1930s. The majority of the buildings shown in the scene dates to the nineteenth century. Number 40 Carnaby Street dates to c1720 with nineteenth-century alterations and is Grade II listed, list number 1292444.
A view of the fronts of four-storey buildings at 40-43 Carnaby Street, Soho, by the turning into Ganton Street. Dominating the scene on the corner is the fashionable menswear shop Lord John at number 43 Carnaby Street. Lord John which was opened by David and Warren Gold in 1964 was at the forefront of 1960s fashion and famous customers included The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. In 2017 a plaque commemorating the famous shop was placed onto the side of number 43. Until around the mid-1960s, the Victorian building at number 43 was a pub known as the Coach and Horses. Further down Carnaby Street at numbers 40-42 are neighouring clothes shops, including one called USA at number 42. Suits and clothes for sale are visible in the windows of Lord John and hanging from rails in the neighbouring shops. On the far left of the photograph is a five-storey warehouse building at number 22 Ganton Street built c1920s-c1930s. The majority of the buildings shown in the scene dates to the nineteenth century. Number 40 Carnaby Street dates to c1720 with nineteenth-century alterations and is Grade II listed, list number 1292444.
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