Is there a physical typewriter shop in London? At my hotel in Spitalfields, I flopped down on the bed and did a late-night phone search for typewriter shops. With Abigail safely at my mum’s house in East Anglia, I was back in London, alone there for the first time in years. All that summer, COVID numbers ballooned and travel restrictions remained but I kept up the hope of a trip and an Imperial Good Companion.Ī sudden change of policy! Travelers from the US were allowed to enter England four days before the reunion. Lockdown intervened the day before our flight.Įventually, the reunion was rescheduled for October 2021. I was heading to a writer’s reunion run by The Gentle Author of Spitalfields Life. My youngest daughter, Abigail, and I were ready to visit London from Boston in March 2020. Imperial Portables are plentiful in the UK, so I waited to find one there in person. They only had to be mailed to New York, where props were gathered and sent by shipping container.) (He told me he was relieved that no international shipping was involved in sending typewriters for Tom Hanks’ latest movie, a WWII feature shot near London. Tom Furrier, my Boston typewriter repairman, refuses to ship machines internationally after unfortunate incidents. But it was the earliest version I hoped to find.įor five years I had kept an eye out for one in the States, to no avail. The Imperial Typewriter Company of Leicester, England, made this popular portable from 1932 into the ’60s, with several updates to the design.
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