2-634-416 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Old Curiosity Shop', c1910. Old Curiosity Shop, 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London. Built c1567, this building claims to be the oldest shop premises in central London. Charles Dickens lived in nearby Bloomsbury and was known to have visited the shop yet it is unclear if the shop was the inspiration for The Old Curiosity Shop published in 1841. [J. Beagle & Co, London, c1910]