Lamb’s Conduit Street in central London is home to many unique, individual shops. Along with some rather surprisingly bad shops selling not very much lurks some of London’s finest treasures.
Located in Bloomsbury on the west end of the city, Lamb’s Conduit Street is dripping with history. The street was named after William Lamb in recognition of the £1,500 he gave for the rebuilding of the Holborn water conduit in 1564 underneath the street.
There is a rather quaint pub also, The Lamb, which was refurbished in the Victorian era and is one of the few remaining pubs with ‘snob screens’ which prevented the well to do drinker having to see the common man drinking in the bar, and vice versa. Charles Dickens who lived locally is reputed to have frequented the Lamb.
Now it is home to some fab shops, such as the concept store Darkroom, Architectural feature collector Ben Pentreath and of course Maggie Owen who has taken up home at the location of London’s very first dairy.
Other great places are menswear shop Folk clothing and the now famous People’s Supermarket, but those don’t make the press for me today.
Monocle produced a much better video than I could of this street, even if it is a little out of date now.
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