Detail on WHSmith shop front
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Detail on WHSmith shop front
Image: © Penny Mayes Taken: 12 Sep 2010
The branch of W H Smith & Son in Newtown High Street http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2430 was restored to its original (1927) condition in 1975. Some of the original fittings and decorations still survived beneath the modern peg-boarding within the shop. The architects worked from old blueprints and drawings to restore other areas but none existed for the lanterns which hung outside. An old photograph was enlarged to get the detail and the lanterns were recreated. The first floor of the shop houses a W H Smith museum which is open (free) during shop opening hours.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.515053
Longitude
-3.3156