Propped-Up Shop

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

428

Date Released

11 Mar 1963

Date recorded

1 Feb 1963

Length of issue (in feet)

703

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Indoor Ski School
2. 2Propped-Up Shop
3. 3Crocodile Bar

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

NoS Summary - An old house, protected by a lease, impedes the construction of a new office block in central London.

Researcher Comments

Commentary: A stone’s throw from Piccadilly there’s a new sky-scraper block of offices incompleted [sic] because an old shop stands in its forecourt, propped up by beams all round. Tell the tailor, there, with an unfinished lease to protect him, that he’s holding up progress and he’ll say quite the contrary. Progress is propping him up, quite literally. The prop-beams go through the sky-scraper windows as a fragment of old London obstinately lingers on.

Keywords

Buildings and structures

Locations

London; England

Written sources

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Credits:

Commentator

Tim Brinton

Length of story (in feet)

65

Story extras:

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