This view shows the shopfronts at numbers 17-19 The Pavement facing the eastern part of Clapham Common in the Clapham conservation area of Lambeth. To the left of view, a pair of two-storey with attic buildings, believed to be eighteenth-century, have projecting single-storey shops, number 19 shown as ‘PERKINS FAMILY BUTCHER’, its striped awning shading its display window, and number 18 as ‘THE HAPPY DOLPHIN FULLY LICENSED ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL RESTAURANT’. Sadly, 18-19 The Pavement were destroyed by fire in 1999 and the site boarded up for two decades. Recent planning applications have been submitted to enable a new development to be built in keeping with the character of The Pavement shopfronts. To the right of view, the four-storey early nineteenth century building at 17 The Pavement was Grade II listed in 1955, listing number 1064962. It is shown as ‘DEANE & CO. DISPENSING CHEMISTS’. The business was founded in 1837 by Henry Deane, one of the first members of the Pharmaceutical Society, and although taken over by another chemist in the late nineteenth century, retained the name until it ceased trading in 1986. The shopfront has a central pair of doors with Doric columns to either side, and both display windows have banners for ‘KODAK FILM’ offering ‘DEVELOPING PRINTING ENLARGING’ and colour film. As well as photography supplies and equipment, a range of perfumery products are also displayed with LANCÔME, MAX FACTOR and CHANEL brands shown. To the right of the shop front, an impressive wooden panelled door presumably offered access to residential areas above the shop. Above the shopfront the cornice appears to incorporate awning hatches, above which an ornate cast iron balcony extends across the entire width of the shop. Four casement windows are set in arched recesses and a street sign showing ‘THE PAVEMENT’ is fixed to the brick work to the right. The second-floor windows are set flush to the brickwork, and a cornice heads the first and second-storey frontage. The third floor has a row of smaller and squarer casement windows with a less pronounced cornice above, a narrower band of plain-capped brickwork presenting the parapet. 17 The Pavement is now the Common café, and the street pavement appears to have since been widened allowing tables and seating to extend outside. Partly visible to the right of view, 16 The Pavement is mid to late eighteenth century and Grade II listed in 1981 as 15 and 16 The Pavement, listing number 1064961. A few motion-blurred pedestrians are also shown walking past the shops.