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Magdalen Street has three mosaic shop doorways, all in the stretch between Anglia Square and the City.

Magdalen Street mosaic

The fan design below is believed to date from 1947, when the shop front was refitted as Timpsons, a shoe shop.

Magdalen Street mosaic

Magdalen Street mosaic

This third mosaic doorway, below, also used to be for a shoe shop (Freeman, Hardy and Willis).

Freeman Hardy Willis

Magdalen Street mosaic

 

Some other shop fronts in Magdalen Street

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