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r Carnaby Street The purpose-built mock-Tudor
building with its country-house
W1. Map 12 F2. 1 Oxford Circus.
feel dates from 1925.
During the 1960s this street was Today the shop maintains its
so much the hub of swing ing strong links with top quality
London that the Ox ford English craftsmanship of all kinds.
Dictionary rec og nized the term
“Carnaby Street” as meaning y Photographers’
“fashion able clothing for young
people”. To day fashion shops Gallery
can also be found on nearby 16-18 Ramillies St W1. Map 12 F1.
streets such as King ly Court and Tel 020 7087 9300. 1 Oxford Circus.
Fouberts Place. Open 10am–6pm Mon–Sat (till 8pm
Liberty’s mock-Tudor façade Thu), 11am–6pm Sun during
exhibitions. 7 & after noon. - =
t Liberty Among his first customers were ∑ thephotographersgallery.org.uk
the artists Ruskin and Rossetti.
Regent St W1. Map 12 F2. Tel 020 7734
1234. 1 Oxford Circus. See Shops and Soon Liberty prints and des igns, This gallery exhibits work from
Markets p317. ∑ liberty.co.uk by artists such as William Morris, both new and well-known
epitomized the Arts and Crafts photo graphers, as well as
Arthur Lasenby Liberty opened movement of the late 19th and staging regular talks and events.
his first shop, selling oriental early 20th centuries and they The bookshop also sells
silks, on Regent Street in 1875. are still fashionable today. cameras and prints.
The Heart of Soho
Old Compton Street is Soho’s high street. Its shops and Maison Bertaux is known
restaurants reflect the variety of people who have lived for producing delicious
croissants and coffee and
in the area over the centuries. These include many great wonderful cakes.
artists, writers and musicians.
Bar Italia is a coffee shop
Ronnie Scott’s opened in situated under the room The Coach and Horses
1959, and nearly all the big where John Logie Baird first pub has been a centre
names of jazz have played demonstrated television in of bohemian Soho
here (see pp347–9). 1926. As a child, Mozart stayed since the 1950s and
next door with his family in is still popular.
1764 and 1765.
Algerian Coffee Stores is
one of Soho’s oldest shops.
Delicious aromas of the
world’s coffees fill the shop. G R E E K M O O R S T

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Patisserie Valerie, The Palace Theatre
now a chain, first has hosted many
opened in Soho in successful musicals.
the 1920s.
The French House was
St Anne’s Church Tower is all frequented by Maurice
that remains after a bomb Chevalier and General
destroyed the church in 1940. de Gaulle.

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