Comments on: Sandle Brothers, Manufacturing Stationers

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:53:38 +0000

I could have spent many a happy hour truffling away in there.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:06:28 +0000

I love all things to do with paper and stationery and I collect little notebooks wherever I go. I live near Basel Papermill Museum and often visit (you can make a sheet of watermarked paper).

My house in Scotland used to be part of an old stationery print works. It has high very ceilings downstairs as there would have been printing machinery. Upstairs much lower ceilings for the typesetters.

By: Bernie

Bernie — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 08:57:41 +0000

Simply amazing!

Could the business have survived to today? Was it demolished by the Blitz?

By: Bru

Bru — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 08:07:08 +0000

I love stationery! I would have been in stationery heaven wandering such places! I can imagine how many purchases I’d have left with!

By: Christine Swan

Christine Swan — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 07:26:56 +0000

That is a very ambitious address! I can almost smell the papery odour. Unfortunately, London doesn’t have many “big shops” left and stationery is used far less in our electronic age. Through dealing with my late parents’ affairs, I have learned that writing a letter evokes a response that otherwise would be impossible to obtain. Organisations make themselves almost unreachable via their impossible online, AI driven chatbots, that consistently don’t know the answer to my question, or via phone lines with queues testing the patience of the proverbial saint. A letter does the job.
This looks like the kind of shop I would have spent a lot of time in. I’m rather fascinated by it having a Japanese department. Thanks GA, another fascinating mind-wander.

By: Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 06:40:43 +0000

Such incredible photos, thank you so much. Oh that it was still there ?

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 05:08:57 +0000

I like this.