shops

We’re back on the search for London’s most groanworthy wordplay. Here are seven more masterclasses in high street wit, aided by the wonders of Google Street View. If you’d like to nominate your own favourite punning shops, check we didn’t already cover them in Part …

We want to know: what is the most puntastic shop in London? Our friends in Toronto laid down the challenge with a truly frightening exposition of wordplay (the Hindenburger fast food joint stands out; oh the humanity). But we think London can do even better. …

Fashion changes over the years; nowadays faster then ever. So it’s great to find old shops and signs for companies that have long since folded, or advertisements for items of clothes that we can now only find in second-hand or vintage shops. Can you remember …

Eastern Foods 165 Green Street, Newham Nearest Tube: Upton Park www.easternsweets.co.uk Expect to pay: £6/kilo for burfi Opened in 1974, Eastern Foods is an original fixture of Green Street, Newham’s answer to Southall and Brick Lane. Today the sweet shop fits right in with the …

We like independent traders, specially those that are a bit different or even odd. Small set-ups doing interesting things with one eye on their ethics, the other on their speciality, the other one their customers in the style of a benevolent, entrepreneuring tri-clops. Well, our …