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The shop is now located in a Grade II listed building at 21, Chapel Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, moving here in 1960. It was home to Julius Shaw, a friend of
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after he had a dream in which he was presented with a copy of the works of
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The shop was founded by John Cadby in 1830, and was then succeeded in March 1870 by a
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