Copy Shop

Copy Shop, 25 Nutfield Road, Merstham, Surrey, 2002 • Colourful village copy shop no more – an early victim of the burgeoning internet? Was still to let in 2012.

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Lee @ Designed By Good People says:

2013/10/03 at 21:35

Lovely shop front with unique sash windows (possibly a butcher and green grocers at some point?).

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- Vici MacDonald says:
  
  2013/10/03 at 21:38
  
  Your expertise is greater than mine, I would never have known the sash windows were unusual. Certainly the kind of area where it could have been the local grocer’s.
  
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By Vici MacDonald
On 2013/09/23
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2002, Merstham, Shopfront Elegy, Surrey

extinct, final closure, generic title, multicoloured, printer

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