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Islington Tribune - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 22 June 2007
 
Our street of clothes shops

COULD someone who knows about these things explain why it is that every time a shop closes around the Upper Street or Cross Street area it reopens as a young women’s clothes shop or something of the sort?

The Old Parr’s Head pub, Vulture Videos, Aria, Essentials food store, Wood Records and several others, all within 30 metres of each other, have been transformed, sometimes radically, to cater for a narrow feminine market only.
I now fully expect that, whenever I see a small shop round here closing (happening all the more frequently, I believe, due to council policy), it will soon reopen as this kind of shop, and I seem to be invariably correct.
I have nothing against this kind of shop. It’s just that it would be nice to have some establishments in the immediate vicinity which are not restaurants, estate agents or, now, ladies’ clothes shops!
Perhaps, for some reason, these are the only kinds of shops that will make money round here, which does not bode very well for the council’s plans to transform the old postal sorting office into a huge shopping complex.
DUNCAN MILLAR
Almeida Street, N1


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