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Am I right in thinking that the door underneath the artwork was an extra entrance to Leicester Square station between its Wisden years and its chippy years?
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John Wisden’s gaff
By Will 2 years ago, mid-September Leave a comment on this post
Good old John. Without him, the annual excitement of reading the Small Yellow Book (and now Big Yellow Book as of this year, and I’m not talking the Yellow Pages) would not be. He’s our founder, too, and although we don’t have a big montage of him at Cricinfo and Wisden Towers it’s great to see photos like this:
This is 21 Cranbourn Street in London, just off Leicester Square where John Wisden and Co. were established. I think this is their “sporting goods” shop, and not an administrative office, although I could be wrong.
I think it’s now home to Sabir’s Fish Bar, or Saber’s - a poor attempt to mask the fact it’s essentially a chippy. But despite the batter being boiled downstairs, they’ve nevertheless kept the original artwork on the building which is really cool.
In fact I stuck up a great article from the 1992 edition of The Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack last week on the survival of Wisden. A historical piece, it looks back to the beginnings of the company and how it has managed to last as long as it has. Go read. In putting the piece up I also found this image, “a few specimens of Crawford’s patent exceller bats” which I thought was brilliant.
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4 Responses to “John Wisden’s gaff”
September 19th, 2006 at 8.45 pm
September 19th, 2006 at 9.59 pm
I think that’s right, Bish, yeah
September 21st, 2006 at 7.35 pm
Cheers, Will. I know that area of London quite well but never knew that was there. Must take a camera next time I’m there.
March 12th, 2007 at 8.55 am
Have in my possession a Wisden’s Century cricket bat. I would assume it would be made in late 30’s, 40’s. Looking for information on the history of the bat and its approx. value. Can you help?
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