Clara’s dressmaking shop
Across from the cobbler’s, a lit shop window and rooms upstairs.
Clara Mallowdene’s window faces Ambrose’s across Amberwick Passage, a little nearer the bend. In summer, with their doors open, she can ask him a question without crossing the street. In winter, she comes over and takes the chair beside his bench.
Her shop opens onto the foot of the stairs. Above it are her rooms, with a high shelf for things she likes to look at: a blue bowl, a pot with the wrong lid, and a small wooden bird bought on an errand for buttons. One shutter catches near the bottom when she closes for the evening.
People connected with this place
Clara Mallowdene
Dressmaker across the Passage from Ambrose’s shop.
Ambrose Peverell
A cobbler at number forty-two, with a pair of dancing shoes to think about.
Look closer at the illustration ↗Stories
Ambrose and His Dancing Shoes
A pair of dancing shoes draws Ambrose Peverell out of his workshop and towards an evening with Clara Mallowdene.
With Ambrose Peverell, Clara Mallowdene
The Lamplighter’s Round
Walk Jonah Fenn’s evening round, from shop windows and familiar doorways down to the last lamp by the river.
With Jonah Fenn, Bartholomew Bellweather, Rosie Fenn, Kit Fenn, Constable Dimmock, Edward Bellweather