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The district around Sloane Street has good shops and exciting architecture. In addi-tion is it domicile for "the Sloane Rangers", the daughters from the upper classes who are in good form, and whose curious life style has been humorously written about in Sloana Ranger Handbook by Ann Barr and Peter York. The Sloane’s as the residents are called, are very conventional and they prefer to go shopping in the department store Peter Jones on the westside of Sloane Square, where you can buy everything to the house. On the other hand they reluctantly necessary go in Royal Court Theatre on the opposite side of the place; the theatre is known by its cultural radical setting up. Under the plane trees in the middle of the place is a fountain with a statue of Venus.
One of the first shops in Sloane Street, is General Trading Company, which definitely is in the Sloanes’ world, where you buy gifts, toys, porcelain and equipment to the house. The fact, that General Trading is among that little handfull shops in London, which have the title by Appointment to the Queen, indicates something about the prices of the shop. It is, however, not all articles, which have the same price.
A little longer above Sloane Street you pass the gardens with Cadogan Place, for which only the resident have admission, but you can look through the grating and rejoy the garden, especially later on the winter when the bulbgrowths and the early shrubs are in bloom.
On both of the sides of Sloane Street after Cadogan Place are a row of shops laying with the famous names like : Valentino, Kenzo, Joseph and Katharine Hamnett, but also some less expensive as Laura Asley and Esprit.
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This page was last updated on august 29, 1998 |
