The former Spieghalter's, Mile End Road
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The former Spieghalter's, Mile End Road
Image: © Marathon Taken: 6 Feb 2019
Ian Nairn wrote in Nairn's London in 1966 “Messrs Wickham, circa 1910, wanted an emporium. Messrs Spieghalter, one infers, wouldn’t sell out. Messrs Wickham, one infers further, pressed on regardless, thereby putting their Baroque tower badly out of centre. Messrs Spieghalter (‘The East End Jeweller’) remained, surrounded on both sides by giant columns a la Selfridges. The result is one of the best visual jokes in London, a perennial triumph for the little man, the bloke who won’t conform.” Wickham’s closed first but it was many years before Spieghalters closed and the odd façade remains to this day.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.520905
Longitude
-0.051552