75 Gloucester Avenue: The Curly Dog Café

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2013 Fishmonger

History:

  • STATIONER Mrs Elizabeth Maudling 1861-81

    75 Gloucester Avenue

    Newsagent 1972

  • ” Percival Douglas 1889
  • ” Arthur Milton 1895
  • ” Gilbert Robinson 1901
  • ” Mrs Hannah Tadd 1905-10
  • ” Richard Sercombe 1922-30
  • ” Mrs Alice Wright 1935-45
  • ” Robert Walker 1950
  • ” Eric Westlake 1957-60
  • NEWSAGENT D. Rackham 1965-70
  • ” Supanews 1972-86

Until Chalk Farm Bridge was pedestrianised in 1972, and Gloucester Avenue became ‘no entry’ by Cecil Sharp House, Gloucester Avenue was a very busy road as a cut-through for people driving from the West End to Hampstead.

This newsagent was very busy selling papers and cigarettes to people on their way to and from work.

  • GROCER? late 1980s
  • CAFE The Curly Dog 1996- at least 2006. As such the interior featured in a BBC comedy sketch with Laura Solon as a strange Polish waitress…
  • FISHMONGER 2013
Gloucester Avenue 2013

Fishmonger,  2013