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Monday Portrait: Arthur Beale of Arthur Beale, Shaftsbury Avenue



The best shops are often infused with their owner's identity and enhance our community with their constancy becoming landmarks that anchor an area's character against the shifting tides of commercialisation, degeneration or gentrification.

One such shop is Arthur Beale, the chandlers on Shaftsbury Avenue, which has recently been saved from extinction by Alasdair Flint & Gerry Jeatt. Beale's has been trading for over 400 years, but here is a more recent portrait of Arthur senior.

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