Road Load

Question of the week: “What is your favourite road in London?”

"I have so many favourite roads all over London, but I will pick one very close to the London Centre: Cecil Court. It is a one-block courtyard street lined with bookshops and print shops, located just off Charing Cross Road a few minutes walk up from the National Portrait Gallery. It’s the best single block in London for concentration of wonderful book and print shops. At Story’s Antiquarian Prints, you can still buy eighteenth-century prints for reasonable prices (they make fabulous gifts!). Travis Emery Music specialises in musical scores and early as well as contemporary books on many different types of music. Stephen Poole’s Fine Books offers many first editions of great literary works. Drummond’s Theatrical Bookseller is the best place in London for books, posters, advertisements, and all kind of paraphernalia connected with London’s theatrical world from the early nineteenth century to the present. This is just a taste of the pleasures of Cecil Court. You could spend hours there. Charing Cross Road is not what it used to be in terms of long rows of bookshops, but it still features a substantial assortment of bookshops running up from Cecil Court. "- Prof Kucich

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