Alice's Shop
Opposite Christ Church, Oxford, England, is Alice's Shop on St Aldate's, It was formerly frequented in Victorian times by Alice Liddell, who used to buy sweets there and inspired Alice in Wonderland. She lived at Christ Church with her father Henry Liddell, who was Dean of the College and Cathedral.
Alice's Shop is now a gift shop for tourists selling souvenirs, especially based on Alice. A branch has opened in the Paddington/Bayswater area of west London at 3 Craven Terrace.
The Old Sheep Shop
The shop was featured as the Old Sheep Shop in Lewis Carroll's 1870 book Through the Looking-Glass. One of the original John Tenniel illustrations shows the inside of the shop. It was used as a setting in Chapter 5 of the book (Wool and Water) and is owned by a sheep in the story [1]:
She looked at the Queen, who seemed to have suddenly wrapped herself up in wool. Alice rubbed her eyes, and looked again. She couldn't make out what had happened at all. Was she in a shop? And was that really — was it really a sheep that was sitting on the other side of the counter? Rub as she could, she could make nothing more of it: she was in a little dark shop, leaning with her elbows on the counter, and opposite to her was an old Sheep, sitting in an arm-chair knitting, and every now and then leaving off to look at her through a great pair of spectacles.
On leaving the shop at the end of the chapter, Alice says:
"Well, this is the very queerest shop I ever saw!"
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