23-11-2021 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

There’s a museum in James J Fox, London’s oldest cigar shop

There’s a small shop in St James that’s said to be the oldest cigar shop in the world, and it houses its own museum, that’s also open to the public.
The cigar shop at 19 St James’s Street is thought to have been here since 1787 when it traded at Robert Lewis. A separate cigar dealer, James J Fox was set up in Dublin in 1881, and opened their first store in 1947. In 1992, the two firms merged, and the store was renamed James J Fox, but only the name above the door changed,
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