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Toy shop owner Louise Heard: 鈥楲iving in a city is like time travel鈥�
his Listed Londoner tells Robert Elms why she embraces change.
Benjamin Pollock鈥檚 Toyshop is one of the oldest shops in London鈥nd Louise Heard has been involved with it for than 30 years.
She began working there in 1985 aged 15, initially only coming in on Saturdays to do odd jobs like 鈥渟orting through doll鈥檚 eyes鈥�.
When ex-owner and Coronation Street actor, Peter Baldwin, died in 2015 she took over, and ever since has kept the shelves stocked with nostalgic toys like wind-up music boxes and toy theatres.
Louise Heard reveals her favourite haunts, memories, pet hates and everything in between with Robert Elms.
