'The Shop'

The owner of 'The Shop' at number 40, Chatsworth Road (whose opening hours are clearly displayed in the window: Monday–Sunday: closed) enjoys living on 'this peculiar and wonderful street'.

" I bought ‘The Shop’ in 1999 where St Lucian twins were dealing in ‘import and export’. In many ways things are even more interesting now. I love the fact that a different ethnic minority occupies each shop. This block and the one opposite were built specifically as part of a new neighbourhood in the 1870s; the road was put in afterwards. Percy Ingles on the corner is the only chain on this street – that is, apart from the three bookmakers. It opened in 1991 when the market was still thriving, in what had been a bakery 150 years before."