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The architectural critics have something to say on the matter:
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/05/26/ebba-architects-cubitts-broadway-market-eyewear-store/ -
As if you still needed to know more about the Porters' Route. :)
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/9591724/
(Tag starts here; unfortunately, @photoben 's and my tagging pictures (https://www.lfgss.com/comments/9591631/) haven't survived.)
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I heard about this place at an excellent John Rogers talk about the Black Path, a medieval droving route from Walthamstow through London Fields, Broadway Market, Colombia Road etc. The Cooke and Manze family (from Italy) were the two main pioneers of jellied eels/pie and mash shops in London, even connected by marriage at one point too. A lot of the original tiling and windows still remain despite its second life as an optician's.