Europe's oldest umbrella shop, has served customers, rain or shine, since Victorian times.

A slice of Victorian London is thriving on Oxford Street. A five-minute walk from the bland expanse of high-street shops that stretch from Tottenham Court Road station westwards to Bond Street, James Smith and Sons Umbrella Shop has remained largely unchanged since it moved to the location in 1857 (the shop was originally located in Foubert Place, off Regent Street, where it opened in 1830).