I think its the Smiths shop due to the outside shot and its exactly the right size with the scales where they used to be, also Vivien Rose is in the piece - he ran Smiths for years. More than happy to be proved wrong if anyone else spots some clues!
There are clips from both shops. Notice the bow windows in the background from time to time.
Very eagle eyed John, I only spotted the Smiths.
Nigel, It’s a pity we don’t get a shot of the Snuff jars on the top wooden shelf at the F&T shop. With the years of reaching and sliding the jars down, there was very distinct grooves worn into them.
Yes indeed, they were distinctly worn. There is a good picture of the shelves in Hugh McCausland’s ‘Snuff and Snuff Boxes’ - imho the best book about snuff ever. If you don’t have a copy it’s well worth searching for, sadly out of print for 50 years.
My copy isn’t for sale 
Mine neither 
@Bigmick - I think the traditional pinch was smaller - certainly ‘doing lines’ or snorting snuff was not the done thing when this film was made.
@ Snuffter, what is the F&T( Haymarket ) shop now? I recollect it was opened as a childes clothes possibly Mothercare. Last time I was in London it was one of those cheap trinket shops selling tatty made Big Ben castings with thermometers that didn’t work, Beef Eaters, Union Flags etc. Enough to make you cry.
Its still that sort of thing; cards, beefeaters and union jacks. There’s always a tear in my eye if I walk past.
Well it just goes to show that rubbish will sell better then snuff! Mind you maybe the time is now right for it to be retaken as a snuff shop. Roderick are you there?
That would be a wonderful progression of his business, but I expect the costs of being there are sky high. I believe the original F and T closed due to the lease expiring and them being priced out. Maybe it just coincided with retirement - I can’t imagine they genuinely unable to buy the lease back.
Yea, them Trinket shops all sell the same high priced junk, I reckon that they are all owned by the same firm and make their money with tourist just wanting to take something home from London.
I want to take snuff home next time I’m in London! The empty tins make better trinkets, plus they are even more useful.
Well, when a trinket shop can sell a die-cast or plastic model of Big Ben for $10, made in china with slave labor for $.22, vs a snuffshop who has local labor and needs to procure tobacco leaves, scents, perfumes, etc, who is more readily going to be able to afford a lease? Tourists will buy anything you offer them. On a side note, my wife just opened the front door coming in from work, and the slight draft just sent a crushing wave of Cheese & Bacon from the CLOSED AND NOT TOUCHED IN A WEEK bag 10 feet away into my nose. Good stuff, Roderick.
A tobacco shop especialy a world class one I think would be better suited in a place somewhat lower rent and out of the way! Who wants to deal with tourist anyways while shoping for some good tobacco.