furniture depot

Close to the Old Nichol were Shoreditch's Curtain Road furniture depots and wholesale emporia.

Although in 1946 the depot was required to declare whether it had any such holdings, the exhibit states, "It was practically impossible for the former owners to trace their property since the furniture depot carried out this declaration requirement hesitantly and incompletely."

In the bathroom department of "Around the Third Ring" - a vast, trendy furniture depot on Beijing's Third Ring Road - a 58-year-old woman who identified herself only as Teacher Tao was busy laying out wads of cash to remedy a lifetime of bathroom neglect.