Bennetts

Bennetts, 117 High Street, Poole, Dorset, 2004 • Attractive deco shop unit, which actually looks like a Christmas tree – so much more welcoming with its curved entrance and warm, elegant windows than the mean-spirited flat frontages that surround it. Such was its popularity, I couldn’t get a shot without crowds outside. There’s a not-great recent review on Yell, so it may still be there (Google Street View never made it down this road so I can’t check).

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claystories says:

2015/12/29 at 21:26

Hi – happy to say it’s still there.

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- Vici MacDonald says:
  
  2015/12/29 at 21:28
  
  Thanks, glad to hear it.
  
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Lee @ Designed By Good People says:

2016/01/19 at 11:01

Lovely.

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By Vici MacDonald
On 2015/12/20
3 Comments

2004, Dorset, Poole, Shopfront Elegy

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