John Gay, Lewis Rogers Junk Shop, 63 Hornsey Road

The photographer Hans Gohler was born in 1909 in Karlsruhe.

In 1933 he moved to England and changed his name to John Gay (after the Beggar's Opera composer). He took pictures of every day life in the city, railway stations and Dylan Thomas

Sometime between 1962 and 1964 he took these three photographs of a second-hand store on the Hornsey Road: 



It sold 'anything of interest', which seems to have meant dolls' heads in vases, grandmother clocks, chandeliers, 




lamp bases, miniature chests of drawers and horns. 




John Gay died in 1999 and left his photographs to English Heritage, who've put them online.  Go look. 
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