Aerated Bread Shops were a chain of tearooms common throughout the UK. Quoting from the book this image was published in: "From the corner of the picturesque "Aerated Bread Shop"—of all places—that abuts on to the church, a delightful view of all this may be had. This ancient lath-and-plaster building will, no doubt, in time be compelled to give way to some abnormally hideous new construction..."