Ambrose’s cobbler’s shop
Number 42, Amberwick Passage, with a carved boot above the door.
Ambrose Peverell mends shoes at number forty-two. Shelves hold pairs waiting for collection, wooden lasts line the top shelf, and the counter is worn pale where customers rest their hands. His bench stands beneath a lamp, turned towards the window.
Clara’s dressmaking shop is across the Passage. She knows which leg of the chair beside his bench is short. In the box marked Sundries, Ambrose keeps a pair of dancing shoes; after their evening at the Three Lanterns, Jonah Fenn catches sight of him practising through the low workshop window.
People connected with this place
Ambrose Peverell
A cobbler at number forty-two, with a pair of dancing shoes to think about.
Clara Mallowdene
Dressmaker across the Passage from Ambrose’s shop.
Jonah Fenn
The lamplighter who knows the Passage window by window.
Look closer at the illustration ↗Stories
Ambrose and His Dancing Shoes
A pair of dancing shoes draws Ambrose Peverell out of his workshop and towards an evening with Clara Mallowdene.
With Ambrose Peverell, Clara Mallowdene
The Lamplighter’s Round
Walk Jonah Fenn’s evening round, from shop windows and familiar doorways down to the last lamp by the river.
With Jonah Fenn, Bartholomew Bellweather, Rosie Fenn, Kit Fenn, Constable Dimmock, Edward Bellweather