Image description: Sign hanging above the Alice Shop ('Alice's Shop') on St Aldgate's, Oxford, (River Thames), Oxfordshire.

The shop features in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass - as the 'Old Sheep Shop' in Sir John Tenniel's original illustration. Alice Liddell, for whom the book was written, lived across the road from the shop at Christ Church, where her father was Dean.

River Thames Image: Alice Shop Hanging Sign, Lewis Carroll's Old Sheep Shop, Oxford

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