Spencer Plaza
Rambling shopping mall on the site of a Raj-era department store, with handicraft and antique shops.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Spencer Plaza in Chennai starts with a block of ice shipped from Canada to Madras and the firm behind it, Spencer and Company, whose name still hangs over the mall. It follows the company from Mount Road in the eighteen sixties into the railway refreshment rooms of southern India. One stop is Egmore station, where a writer remembered being taken as a child for sponge cake and lemonade.
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