Soho - Streets

Streets

  • Berwick Street has record shops, fabric shops, and a small street market open from Monday to Saturday.
  • Carnaby Street was for a short time the fashion centre of 1960s "Swinging London" although it quickly became known for poor quality 'kitsch' products.
  • Dean Street is home to the Soho Theatre, and a pub called The French House which was during World War II popular with the French Government-in-exile. Karl Marx lived at numbers 54 and 28 Dean Street between 1851 and 1856.
  • Denmark Street was a music publishing centre.
  • Frith Street where John Logie Baird first demonstrated television in his laboratory, now the location of Bar Italia. A plaque above the stage door of the Prince Edward Theatre identifies the site where Mozart lived for a few years as a child.
  • Gerrard Street was home to Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, the 43 Club and the Dive Bar, under the Kings Head. It is also the centre of London's Chinatown.
  • Golden Square is a small urban square.
  • Great Marlborough Street was once the location of Philip Morris' original London factory and gave its name to the Marlboro brand of cigarettes. It is also the former home of the London College of Music.
  • Great Windmill Street (below Lexington Street on map - not indicated) was home to the Windmill Theatre "which never closed". The principles of The Communist Manifesto were laid out at a meeting in the Red Lion pub.
  • Greek Street
  • Old Compton Street was the birthplace of Europe's rock club circuit (2 I's club) and boasted the first adult cinema in England (The Compton Cinema Club). Dougie Millings, who was the famous tailor for The Beatles, had his first shop at 63 Old Compton Street which opened in 1962. Old Compton Street is now the core of Soho's gay village.
  • In Soho Square are Paul McCartney's office MPL Communications, and the former Football Association headquarters.
  • Wardour Street was home of the Marquee Club. Another seventies rock hangout was The Intrepid Fox Pub (97/99 Wardour Street).

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