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Seventy-odd small shops under a glazed roof, mostly jewellers, watch dealers and cashmere, behind bow windows that have not been allowed to change. 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It spent the decades afterwards as a tourist trap and has been steadily brought back: the Victorian shopfronts are restored, no cars come down it, and Kingly Court behind stacks three floors of restaurants round a courtyard. 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