Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
Actually, it was much bigger than it looked from the outside and was spread over three (?) floors.
It was demolished and Wetherspoons built premises on the site.
I remember this shop well, bought my own first books there. It was certainly a "rabbit warren" of a building, occupying 3 floors, with quite a narrow and congested entrance at No.7 Whitechapel where Barclays Bank was until recently. That front part of the premises still stands. I believe only the rear of the premises, with the shop's old rear exit was demolished to build the pub. Looking back the building was probably a serious fire hazard, given its narrow passageways and wooden staircases, the amount of paper in its products and the crowded throngs that gathered there in its heyday.



In the 1860's the business was at 51 South Castle Street.