London’s Oddest Shop Names: A Few Additions

By · January 31, 2012 at 11:35 am · 8 Comments · Miscellaneous · Report an error ·

We’ve previously highlighted Typical Kebabexpress and Peculiar Unisex Hair. Reader Conrad Roth now sends us a few additional oddments form around the capital, and we’ve also rounded up a few other suggestions from readers.

  • The intriguing Eroticut on Uxbridge Road presumably offers something for the weekend among its facials and blow drys.
  • Michael’s ‘Barbers’ at 38 Tottenham Lane, meanwhile, leaves us wondering about the quote marks.
  • Wake and Paine undertakers in Twickenham are the ultimate example of what New Scientist used to call ‘nominative determinism’ — people whose names influence them into a particular trade.
  • Ryan Hair near Victoria is nominated by ‘Parry’ in the comments to our Typical Kebabexpress post.
  • The nastily evocative Chickpizz on Albion Road, Stoke Newington, gets commenter Sal’s juices flowing.
  • And, finally, an old favourite from your humble editor M@, who snapped the final photo of ‘Shoot The Aged’, a pine furniture shop in Blackheath that closed sometime around the Millennium. Gone but not forgotten.

Got your own favourite? Let us know in the comments.

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  • dominic

    tastes like shit.

  • jwadman1504

    Hang on, what’s that next door but one to Shoot the Aged? A shop called Bitter Experience? That’s got to be worth a mention in its own right.

    • Matt

      Ha, i’d never noticed that before. What a strange road.

  • Reynald

    Since I get my haircut at Michael’s, I can tell you: it WAS a barbers for years, and has been in his family for generations as a barbers, but he decided to branch out and do women’s hair as well. Hence ‘barbers’.

  • http://twitter.com/Stunt_Girl Shell Grayson

    One of my favourites is the meat & seafood seller on Essex Road, N1. His sign always made us wonder what it would be like to play the “Steve Hatt Fish Game”

  • timothy johnson

    This shop, Fried Chicken Kebabs and Fish, has amused me for decades.
    http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.525969,-0.086201&spn=0.001327,0.004128&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=21.350277,67.631836&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.526011,-0.086039&panoid=sLVF_pRLfGn-LWDukcsF2w&cbp=12,328.32,,0,0.7

    Clearly cashing in on the KFC rebrand, they maybe didn’t think to try pronouncing it out loud.

  • Mike

    I like North End Road’s “99p or plus” – it used to be called “99p or less” but i’m guessing the recession struck and they had to re-evaluate their business plan, completely turning the concept on it’s head – from 99p being the highest priced item, to it being the lowest.  Clever…very clever.

  • Adrian

    It could be odd, it could be quite interesting – I like Rosa Park’s Hair and Beauty in Lewisham – http://www.flickr.com/photos/41918323@N00/4945295529/

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