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The grocery shop

  • The shop was situated on the ground floor of a tenement house at Embankment Square.
  • Customers could buy imported goods here, such as coffee, tea, rice, cocoa.

Memories and stories told by the inhabitants

  • Stanisława Przybyszewska, a Polish writer, used to do her shopping here.
  • After the war, in 1945 the shop became the property of the Tchórzewscy family for a short time. Later it was converted into a flat.

Contemporary photographs

⯆ Above the door and the window of the shop it is possible to notice some fragments of an inscription informing that there used to be a grocery shop in this building.