Nameless green Thai shop

Nameless green Thai shop, 129 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, Borough of Lambeth, London SE1, 2013, 2010, 2016 • A miscellany of painterly disguises have graced this anonymous storage unit for the Chinese and Thai restaurants on either side. It currently resembles a Christo store front artwork (bottom).

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By Vici MacDonald
On 2016/06/04
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2010, 2013, 2016, Borough of Lambeth, London, SE1, Shopfront Elegy

final closure, graffiti, unknown business

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