The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and virtuous young girl of not quite fourteen. ... Secretly obsessed with ensuring that Nell does not die in poverty as her parents did, her grandfather attempts to provide Nell with a good inheritance through gambling at cards.

In the early 1970s, it was a bookstore specializing in Charles Dickens's books.

Hidden away on Portsmouth Street just south of Lincoln's Inn Fields, the Old Curiosity Shop today is a retailer of high-end shoes and is still open for business, as it has been for over 500 hundred years.