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22/11/2025

Bicycle bottle opener now available for the cycling enthusiast or triathlete in your life.

22/09/2025

The final vintage map fabric shipped to !! We can’t wait to see what creative plans they have for it ☺️ thanks for supporting a small business like ours!

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26/11/2020

Cotton and Ylang ylang plane soap

18/11/2020

London Underground Luggage Gift tags

29/10/2020

Vintage Map luggage/gift tags

15/10/2020

Pillow box gift cases

06/10/2020

Hanging decor

04/10/2020

Little gift pouches

02/10/2020

How cool is this?!

This view of London from around 1600 is one of very few surviving paintings to give a generalised view over the City. It was drawn from the church tower of St Mary Overy (now Southwark Cathedral), which was a popular viewpoint for artists depicting the city.

The vista is not topographically accurate, and has been compressed to include various landmarks.

Starting at the left, we can see Whitehall, and prominently towards the right of the centre we can see Old London Bridge. Built between 1176 and 1209, it was the first stone bridge to cross the Thames. At that time, it was surmounted by houses, shops and a chapel, and its gatehouse on the Southwark side was regularly adorned with the severed heads of traitors, as can be seen here. The houses were removed and the bridge widened in the late 18th century before it was finally demolished in 1831.
To the far right, we can see the river bend.

The artist is unknown, but likely to be from the Netherlands. The piece relates to a print by Clement de Jongh ( fl. 1640-70) and has been tentatively dated by means of technical analysis of the panel to 1625-1655.

30/09/2020

Luxury map and leather doorstop. Now in store in two colours.