Barcom Avenue store sells a red herring

I went out this afternoon to see if the store still exists, and to my surprise it did! Here it is:


Although its days as a corer store have long passed, it is still standing. A few things looked right about the location - narrow street, terrace houses surrounding it. There were also terrace houses behind from where this photo is taken, so I could imagine that there could have been washing hanging at the front of these houses as depicted in the painting.

The things that are wrong about this location is that Bayswater Avenue is at least 1 block away, but the big factor here is that directly opposite from where this photo was taken there should be terrace houses, but instead there is Darlinghust Primary School, which according to the school's website has been there since 1883, and was a water mill before that from 1810.

I think its time to focus on the other Bayswater Avenue in Kings Cross to see if there was a deli advertising McNivens Icecream there.