The interior – could be used as a rope walk…
The new position is behind this colonade
Following the recent closure of its long-established premises at 194 Shaftesbury Avenue, in central London, to concentrate on its online business,
the yacht chandler Arthur Beale is to open a new shop in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Manager Jane Percival tells CS that the new owners of Arthur Beale, Hugh Taylor and James Keef were approached by the Dockyard to see if Arthur Beale might be interested in a vacant site between Boathouse 4 and the Royal Naval Museum close to the Portsmouth Harbour entrance of the Dockyard.
“It’s a great site in a colonade with large windows across an 80 foot frontage,” Jane says. “The online business will continue to operate from outside London but this gives customers a chance to come in and feel and smell products like our natural hemp rope or the oiled wool sailing sweaters.”
Main photo shows Reg Hill, coxswain of the Royal Navy Museum’s Steam Pinnace 199, in front of HMS Victory in 2009
More news soon: Classic Sailor’s story on AB closing its London Shop is: HERE
