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Frames in extra small to extra large. Goldilocks would have a lovely time.

9.5 out of 10 people would recommend Cubitts. We're working on the other 0.5.

Frames in extra small to extra large. Goldilocks would have a lovely time.

9.5 out of 10 people would recommend Cubitts. We're working on the other 0.5.

Broadway Market

Stores Broadway Market
Broadway Market

9 Broadway Market
London
E8 4PH

Opening hours

Monday to Saturday - 10am - 7pm
Sunday - 11am - 5pm

Services

Routine eye examinations
Frame repairs and adjustments
Same day repairs service
Lens changes
Made to Measure services
Not wheelchair accessible

+44203 935 9603 broadwaymarket@cubitts.com
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Eye exams available for those aged 16 or older. We do not provide exams under the NHS or contact lens checks.

More than any other Cubitts location, our Broadway Market store strives to preserve the original features and spirit of its historic past.

The façade is graced with the original signage of F. Cooke, who served pie, mash, and eels for over a century in this building. Begun by Robert Cooke in 1862, the shop was amongst those that established this signature dish as a staple for East Londoners in the late 19th century. In 1939, the store was fitted out with its signature blue and yellow patterned tiling, terrazzo flooring, inset mirror panels, and unique Art Deco stained glass window, part of F. Cooke’s cultivation of an aesthetic unique to that peculiar breed of the London pie and mash shop. Today these features remain preserved, a testament to the enduring legacy of F. Cooke.

Downstairs, a former kitchen has been transformed into a testing room, trading eel preparation with eye examination.

Bespoke shelving units transform the marble-topped dining tables into intuitive spectacle displays, a reinterpretation of the space in the spirit of repair and renewal. A repairs desk in the front window marks Broadway Market as a centre for our REDUX circularity initiatives. Downstairs, a former kitchen has been transformed into a testing room, trading eel preparation with eye examination.

Regretfully, hot and jellied eels are not available as advertised. We recommend F. Cooke’s newest establishment in Chelmsford.

The Cubitts Broadway Market collection

A pair of made to measure silhouettes available exclusively from Cubitts Broadway Market.

Cooke takes notes from spectacle design during F. Cooke’s 1860s origins, drawing on hexagonal spectacles imported from a pre Civil War United States. Modern additions of beta titanium temples and a crank bridge bring this old fashioned design into the present.

Orwell is based on a design worn by former Broadway Market local George Orwell, an erstwhile regular at the nearby Dove pub. In the early 20th Century, the pub was known as a meeting place for prominent left wing intellectuals, also including Lenin’s wife Nadezhda Krupskaya, and the poet Dylan Thomas. The frame is a deep rounded square shape, with thin temples.

Cubitts Anew sold in Cubitts Broadway

Downstairs at Cubitts Broadway Market, a former kitchen

The eye examination waiting area at Cubitts Broadway Market