Eversholt Street NW1, where our agency's based in the old ticket office behind Euston Station, doesn't exude much life. As this photo shows, it's grey, grubby and full of shut-down shops, concrete walls and bits of barbed wire.
Reminiscent of East Berlin.
As I wandered around today - perhaps for the last time before our agency moves to the glitzy Charlotte Street and as I head off to Dubai for a while - it struck me that while this area looks devoid of life or interest, this isn't really the case. There's plenty going on.
It's just that it's not deemed something to shout about.
At least two brothels, a gender-change clinic, porn shops, betting shops, a strip club, funeral directors ... none of these particularly big on window-dressing, but nonetheless managing to stay afloat while other shops close down and graveyard pubs change hands.
I wonder what the street would look like if it were given the same visual treatment as Charlotte Street.
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