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Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as nightlife and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable gentrification. It now is predominantly a fashionable district of upmarket restaurants and media offices, with only a small remnant of sex industry venues. British Cultural Identities – Page 130, Mike Storry – 2002

History

The area of Soho was grazing farmland until 1536 when it was taken by Henry VIII of England as a royal park for the Palace of Whitehall. The name "Soho" first appears in the 17th century. Most authorities believe that the name derives from a former hunting cry.[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=41023 'Estate and Parish History', Survey of London: volumes 33 and 34: St Anne Soho (1966), pp. 20–6] accessed: 17 May 2007Adrian Room, ''A Concise Dictionary of Modern Place-Names in Great Britain and Ireland'', page 113John Richardson, ''The Annals of London'', page 156''Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable'', page number varies according to edition James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, used "soho" as a rallying call for his men at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685,Arthur Mee, ''The King's England: London'', page 233 half a century after the name was first used for this area of London.

In the 1660s the Crown granted Soho Fields to Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans. He leased 19 of its to Joseph Girle, who gained permission to build and promptly passed his lease and licence to bricklayer Richard Frith in 1677. Frith began the development. In 1698 William III of England granted the Crown freehold of most of this area to William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland. Meanwhile the southern part of what became the parish of St Anne Within the Liberty of Westminster, was sold by the Crown in parcels in the 16th and 17th centuries, with part going to Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester.

Despite the best intentions of landowners such as the Earls of Leicester and Portland to develop the land on the grand scale of neighbouring Bloomsbury, Marylebone and Mayfair, Soho never became a fashionable area for the rich. Immigrants settled in the area, especially French Huguenots who poured in from 1688, after which the area became known as London's French quarter.
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The French church in Soho Square was founded by Huguenots in the 17th century. By the mid-18th century, the aristocrats who had been living in Soho Square or Gerrard Street had moved away. Soho's character stems partly from the ensuing neglect by rich and fashionable London, and the lack of redevelopment that characterised the neighbouring areas.

By the mid-19th century, all respectable families had moved away, and prostitutes, music halls and small theatres had moved in. In the early 20th century, foreign nationals opened cheap eating-houses, and the neighbourhood became a fashionable place to eat for intellectuals, writers and artists. From the 1930s to the early 1960s, Soho folklore states that the pubs of Soho were packed every night with drunken writers, poets and artists, many of whom never stayed sober long enough to become successful; and it was also during this period that the Soho pub landlords established themselves.

A detailed mural depicting Soho characters, including writer Dylan Thomas and jazz musician George Melly, is in Broadwick Street, at the junction with Carnaby Street.

In fiction, Robert Louis Stevenson had Dr. Henry Jekyll set up a home for Edward Hyde in Soho in his novel, ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''.'' Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886

The Soho name has been imitated by other entertainment and restaurant districts such as Soho, Hong Kong; SoHo; Soho, Málaga; and Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires.

Broad Street pump

memorial, with John Snow pub shown in the background]]
A significant event in the history of epidemiology and public health was John Snow's (physician)'s study of a Broad Street cholera outbreak of cholera in Soho.[http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/learning_modules/geography/05.TU.01/?section=2 Making the Modern World — John Snow and the Broad Street pump] He identified the cause of the outbreak as water from the public water pump located at the junction of Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) and Cambridge Street (now Lexington Street), close to the rear wall of what is today the ''John Snow'' public house.

John Snow mapped the addresses of the sick and noted that they were mostly people whose nearest access to water was the Broad Street pump. He persuaded the authorities to remove the handle of the pump, thus preventing any more of the infected water from being collected. The spring below the pump was later found to have been contaminated with sewage. This is an early example of epidemiology, public health medicine, and the application of science—the germ theory of disease—in a real-life crisis. Steven Johnson, ''The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World'', Riverhead Books, New York, 2006, pp.299

Science writer Steven Johnson (author) describes the 2006 appearance of places related to the Broad Street Pump cholera outbreak:



A replica of the pump, with a memorial plaque and without a handle (to signify John Snow's action to halt the outbreak) was erected near the location of the original pump.

Music scene

The music scene in Soho can be traced back to 1948 and Club Eleven, generally revered as the fountainhead of modern jazz in the UK. It was located at 41 Great Windmill Street. The Harmony Inn was an unsavory cafe and hang-out for musicians on Archer Street operating during the 1940s and 1950s. It stayed open very late and attracted jazz fans from the nearby Cy Laurie Jazz Club.

Soho was mentioned in Brecht's famous song "Mack The Knife":


The Ken Colyer Band's 51 Club (''Great Newport Street'') opened in the early fifties. Blues guitarist and harmonica player Cyril Davies and guitarist Bob Watson launched the London Skiffle Centre, London's first skiffle club, on the first floor of the Roundhouse pub on Wardour Street in 1952.London Timeline. http://londonrockandpop.com/page5.htm

In the early 1950s, Soho became the center of the Beatnik culture in London. Coffee bars such as ''Le Macabre'' (Wardour Street), which had coffin-shaped tables, fostered beat poetry, jive dance, and political debate. The Goings On, located in Archer Street, The Goings On. http://londonrockandpop.com/page3.htm was a Sunday afternoon club, organised by Liverpool beat poets Pete Brown, Johnny Byrne (writer) and Spike Hawkins, that opened in January 1966. For the rest of the week, it operated as an illegal gambling den. Other "beat" coffee bars in Soho included the French, ''Le Grande'', Stockpot, Melbray, Universal, ''La Roca'', Freight Train (Skiffle star Chas McDevitt's place),[http://web.archive.org/web/20091028161140/http://www.geocities.com/adie_barrett/story/kidd1960-1.htm ''Shakin' All Over''.] ''El Toro'', Picasso, Las Vegas, and the Moka Bar.

The 2i's Coffee Bar was probably the first rock club in Europe, opened in 1956 (59 Old Compton Street), and soon Soho was the centre of the fledgling rock scene in London. Clubs included the Flamingo Club (London) ("which started in 1952 as Jazz at the Mapleton"), ''La Discothèque'', Whisky a Go Go, Ronan O'Rahilly's ("of pirate radio station, Radio Caroline fame") The Scene (club)Ronan O'Rahilly. http://www.offshoreechos.com/Caroline%2060/Radio%20Caroline%20-%20The%2060s%20Chapter%2004.htm in 1963 (near the Windmill Theatre in Ham Yard – formally The Piccadilly Club) and jazz clubs like Ronnie Scott'sRonnie Scott's. http://freespace.virgin.net/davidh.taylor/peteking.htm (opened in 1959 at 39 Gerrard Street and moved to 47 Frith Street in 1965) and the 100 Club.

Soho's Wardour Street was the home of the legendary Marquee Club (''90 Wardour Street'') which opened in 1958 and where the Rolling Stones first performed in July 1962. Eric Clapton and Brian Jones both lived for a time in Soho, sharing a flat with future rock publicist, Tony Brainsby.[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5046752.html “Tony Brainsby, Obituary”,] ''The Independent'' March 2000.

Soho was also home to Trident Studios at 17 St Anne's Court between 1968 and 1981 where some of the worlds most famous recording artists of all time recorded music including The Beatles, Elton John, Queen (band) and David Bowie.

Denmark Street is famous for its connections with British popular music, and is also known as the British Tin Pan Alley due to its large concentration of shops selling musical instruments. The Sex Pistols lived beneath number 6 Denmark Street, and recorded their first demos there. Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones and Donovan have all recorded there and Elton John wrote his famous song "Your Song" in the street.

"Lola (song)" by The Kinks is a song that refers to Soho's infamous sex industry, where a young man encounters a transvestite in a club in "old Soho". Other songs set in Soho include "Soho" by Bert Jansch (from the 1965 Bert Jansch/John Renbourn album ''Bert and John'') and "Soho (Needless to Say)" by Al Stewart (from his 1973 album ''Past, Present and Future''). Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as night life and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable gentrification. It now is predominantly a fashionable district of upmarket restaurants and media offices, with only a small remnant of sex industry venues.British Cultural Identities – Page 130, Mike Storry – 2002

Geography

Soho has an area of approximately one square mile and may be thought of as bounded by Oxford Street to the north, Regent Street to the west, Leicester Square to the south and Charing Cross Road to the east. However apart from Oxford Street, all of these roads are 19th-century metropolitan improvements, so they are not Soho's original boundaries. It has never been an administrative unit, with formally defined boundaries. The area to the west is known as Mayfair, to the north Fitzrovia, to the east St Giles, London and Covent Garden, and to the south St James's. According to the Soho Society, Chinatown, London, the area between Leicester Square to the south and Shaftesbury Avenue to the north, is part of Soho, although some consider it a separate area. Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as night life and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable gentrification. It now is predominantly a fashionable district of upmarket restaurants and media offices, with only a small remnant of sex industry venues.British Cultural Identities – Page 130, Mike Storry – 2002

Soho today

Soho is a small, multicultural area of central London; a home to industry, commerce, culture and entertainment, as well as a residential area for both rich and poor.

It has clubs, including the former Chinawhite (nightclub) nightclub; public houses; bars; restaurants; a few sex shops scattered amongst them; and late-night coffee shops that give the streets an "open-all-night" feel at the weekends. Many Soho weekends are busy enough to warrant closing off of some of the streets to vehicles; Westminster City Council pedestrianisation parts of Soho in the mid-1990s, but later removed much of it, apparently after complaints of loss of trade from local businesses.

Record shops cluster in the area around Berwick Street, with shops such as Blackmarket Records and Vinyl Junkies.

Soho is also the home of London's main gay village, around Old Compton Street, where there are dozens of businesses thriving on the pink pound. On 30 April 1999, the Admiral Duncan pub on Old Compton Street, which serves the gay community, was damaged by a nail bomb planted by neo-Nazi David Copeland. It left three dead and 30 injured.
[[Image:AdmiralDuncan.jpg|thumb|The Admiral Duncan pub, Soho landmark and site of the Soho nail-bombing]]

Soho is home to religious and spiritual groups, notably St Anne's Church on Dean Street (damaged by a V1 flying bomb during World War II, and re-opened in 1990), St Patrick's Church, Soho Square in Soho Square (founded by Irish immigrants in the 19th century), City Gates Church with their centre in Greens Court, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness Temple off Soho Square and a small mosque on Berwick Street.

On Valentine's Day 2006, a campaign was launched to drive business back into the heart of Soho. The campaign, called ''I Love Soho'', was created by marketing manager Prannay Rughani (who also heads up the Paramount Pictures licensed multi-million pound Cheers#Outside the bar, and in addition, the Soho Clubs and Bars Group), and features a web-site (www.ilovesoho.co.uk). The campaign was launched at the former Raymond Revuebar in Walkers Court made famous by its strip licence and neons, with such celebrities in attendance as Charlotte Church, Amy Winehouse and Paris Hilton. ''I Love Soho'' is backed by the former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, the Soho Society, Westminster City Council and Visit London.

Gerrard Street, London is the centre of Chinatown, London, a mix of import companies and restaurants (including Lee Ho Fook's, mentioned in Warren Zevon's song "Werewolves of London"). Street festivals are held throughout the year, most notably on the Chinese New Year. Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as night life and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable gentrification. It now is predominantly a fashionable district of upmarket restaurants and media offices, with only a small remnant of sex industry venues.British Cultural Identities – Page 130, Mike Storry – 2002

Theatre and film industry

Soho is near the heart of London's theatreland, and is a centre of the independent film and video industry as well as the television and film post-production industry. It is home to Soho Theatre, built in 2000 to present new plays and comedy. The British Board of Film Classification, formerly known as the British Board of Film Censors, can be found in Soho Square.

Soho's key fibre communications network is managed by Sohonet, which connects the Soho media and post-production community to British film studios locations such as Pinewood Studios and Shepperton Studios and other major production centres across the globe. These include London, Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Rome, New York City, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Wellington and Auckland.

There are also plans by Westminster Council to deploy high-bandwidth Wi-Fi networks in Soho as part of a programme to further encourage the development of the area as a centre for media and technology industries. Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as night life and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable gentrification. It now is predominantly a fashionable district of upmarket restaurants and media offices, with only a small remnant of sex industry venues.British Cultural Identities – Page 130, Mike Storry – 2002

Soho and the sex industry

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The Soho area has been at the heart of London's sex industry for over 200 years; between 1778 and 1801 Manor House, 21 Soho Square was location of The White House, a brothel described by Henry Mayhew as "a notorious place of ill-fame".

Before the introduction of the Street Offences Act in 1959, prostitutes packed the streets and alleys of Soho and by the early sixties the area was home to nearly a hundred strip clubs and almost every doorway in Soho had little postcards advertising "Large Chest for Sale" or "French Lessons Given". These were known as "walk ups". With prostitution in the United Kingdom driven off the streets, many clubs such as The Blue Lagoon became prostitution fronts. The Metropolitan Police Vice squad at that time suffered from corrupt police officers involved with enforcing organised crime control of the area, but simultaneously accepting "back-handers" or bribes.

Clip joints also surfaced in the 1960s; these establishments sold coloured water as champagne with the promise of sex to follow, thus fleecing tourists looking for a "good time". Also in 1960, London's first sex cinema theatre, the Compton Cinema Club (a membership only club to get around the law) opened at 56 Old Compton Street. It was owned by Michael Klinger (producer) and Tony Tenser who produced many of the early Roman Polanski films such as ''Cul-de-sac (1966 film)'' (1966).Matthew Sweet [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/the-lost-worlds-of-british-cinema-the-horror-525200.html "The lost worlds of British cinema: The horror", ''The Independent'', 29 January 2006] Michael Klinger also owned the Heaven and Hell hostess club (which had earlier been just a beatnik club) across the road and a few doors down from the 2I's on the corner of Old Compton Street and Dean Street.

Harrison Marks, a "glamour photographer" and girlie magazine publisher, had a photographic gallery located at No. 4 Gerrard Street and published several magazines such as ''Kamera'', which sold from the late fifties until 1968. The model Pamela Green prompted him to take up nude photography, and she remained the creative force in their business until they split in 1967. The content, however, by today's standard is very innocent.

By the mid-seventies, the sex shops had grown from the handful opened by Carl Slack in the early sixties to a total of fifty-nine sex shopsSinful Streets of London (map and guide book), published in 1983 which then dominated the square mile. Some had secret backrooms selling hardcore photographs and novels, including Olympia Press editions.

By the 1980s, purges of the police force along with a tightening of licensing controls by the City of Westminster led to a crackdown on these illegal premises. By 2000, a substantial relaxation of general Censorship in the United Kingdom, and the licensing or closing of unlicensed sex shops had reduced the red-light area to just a small area around Brewer Street and Berwick Street. Several strip clubs in the area were reported in London's ''Evening Standard'' newspaper in February 2003 to still be rip-offs (known as clip joints), aiming to intimidate customers into paying for absurdly over-priced drinks and very mild 'erotic entertainment'. Prostitution is still widespread in parts of Soho, with several buildings used as brothels, and there is a persistent problem with drug dealing on some street corners.

Soho continues to be the centre of the sex industry in London, and features numerous licenced sex shops. There is a clip joint on Tisbury Court and an adult cinema nearby. Prostitutes are widely available, operating in studio flats. These are sign-posted by fluorescent "model" signs at street level, though several walk-ups on streets leading on to Shaftesbury Avenue were bought up and closed or renovated for other uses some time in the mid 2000s.

Windmill Theatre

The Windmill Theatre was notorious for its risqué nude ''tableaux vivants'', in which the models had to remain motionless to avoid censorship. It opened in June 1931 and was the only theatre in London which never closed,Windmill Theatre. http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Archive/Feb2003/Page2.htm except for the twelve compulsory days between 4 and 16 September 1939. It stood on the site of a windmill that dated back to the reign of Charles II of England until late in the 18th century. The theatre was sold to the Compton Cinema Group. It closed on 31 October 1964 and was reconstructed as a cinema and casino.

Raymond Revuebar
The '''Raymond Revuebar''' was a small theatre specialising in striptease and nude dancing. It was owned by Paul Raymond (publisher) and opened on 21 April 1958. The most striking feature of the Revuebar was the huge brightly lit sign declaring it to be the "World Centre of Erotic Entertainment".

In the early eighties, the upstairs became known as the '''Boulevard Theatre'''http://www.lrb.co.uk/v03/n16/ian-hamilton/the-comic-strip and was used by a small group of alternative comedians called "The Comic Strip" before they found wider recognition with the series ''The Comic Strip Presents'' on Channel 4. It was also used as a "straight" theatre venue for a series of play premieres that included ''Diary of a Somebody'' (the Joe Orton diaries) by John Lahr, a rock opera version of ''Macbeth'' by Howard Goodall and ''The Lizard King'' (the Jim Morrison play) by Jay Jeff Jones.

The name and control of the theatre (but crucially, not the property itself) was bought by Gerald Simi in 1997.[http://www.megastar.co.uk/world/news/2004/03/11/sMEG01MTA3ODk5ODc4NjQ.html MegaStar: Home] Gradually the theatre's fortunes waned, with Simi citing rising rent demands from Raymond as the cause.[http://www.strip-magazine.com/mmagazine/new_welcome.php?subaction=showfull&id=1138828013&ucat=4 Erotic show choreographer Gerard Simi]

The Revuebar closed on 10 June 2004 and became a gay bar and cabaret venue called Too2Much, designed by Anarchitect. In November 2006, it changed its name to Soho Revue Bar. The launch party included performances by Boy George, Antony Costa and Marcella Detroit. On 29 January 2009, the Soho Revue Bar closed. Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as night life and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable gentrification. It now is predominantly a fashionable district of upmarket restaurants and media offices, with only a small remnant of sex industry venues.British Cultural Identities – Page 130, Mike Storry – 2002

Education

Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as night life and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable gentrification. It now is predominantly a fashionable district of upmarket restaurants and media offices, with only a small remnant of sex industry venues.British Cultural Identities – Page 130, Mike Storry – 2002

Streets

* Berwick Street has record shops, fabric shops, and a small Berwick 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, Soho 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. From 1948 to 2008 it was also the location of the infamous The Colony Room club hosted by Muriel Belcher and frequented by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, George Melly and later Damien Hirst.
*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 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived for a few years as a child.
* Gerrard Street (London) 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 Chinatown, London.
* Golden Square is an urban square which is now home to several major media companies.
* Great Marlborough Street was once the location of Philip Morris (tobacconist)' original London factory and gave its name to the Marlboro (cigarette) 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.The Look. Adventures in Pop and Rock Fashion. By Paul Gorman. Page 37 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 The Football Association headquarters.
* Wardour Street was home of the Marquee Club. Another seventies rock hangout was The Intrepid Fox PubIntrepid Fox Pub. http://www.urban75.org/london/intrepid-fox.html (97/99 Wardour Street). Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as night life and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable gentrification. It now is predominantly a fashionable district of upmarket restaurants and media offices, with only a small remnant of sex industry venues.British Cultural Identities – Page 130, Mike Storry – 2002

Nearest underground stations and other transport issues

The nearest List of London Underground stations are Oxford Circus tube station, Piccadilly Circus tube station, Tottenham Court Road tube station, Leicester Square tube station and Covent Garden tube station.

Night-time traffic surveys carried by Westminster Council between 10 pm and 4 am indicate that Old Compton Street, Dean Street, and Frith Street experienced the highest levels of traffic within the Soho area. The busiest location was Old Compton Street between the junctions with Dean and Frith Street, which experienced 'medium' levels of traffic for four of the six hours of the survey, including between 2 am and 4 am.[http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/docstores/.../SOHO_ENTS_SPG_july_2006.pdf www3.westminster.gov.uk/docstores/.../SOHO_ENTS_SPG_july_2006.pdf]

Westminster Council stated that the narrow footways can become very congested at night, particularly at weekends, with people drinking in the street, eating outside takeaways, queuing at entertainment venues or to use bank ATMs, and people passing through the area. There are a number of premises with tables and chairs located on restricted pavement areas and this can cause non-violent traffic/pedestrian conflict. Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as night life and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable gentrification. It now is predominantly a fashionable district of upmarket restaurants and media offices, with only a small remnant of sex industry venues.British Cultural Identities – Page 130, Mike Storry – 2002

References

Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as night life and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable gentrification. It now is predominantly a fashionable district of upmarket restaurants and media offices, with only a small remnant of sex industry venues.British Cultural Identities – Page 130, Mike Storry – 2002

External links

* [http://www.sohomemories.org.uk Soho memories]
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* [http://www.thesohosociety.org.uk/ The Soho Society]
* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=295 The Survey of London: volumes 33 and 34], St Anne Soho (1966)—full text online
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/30/newsid_2499000/2499249.stm The Soho Bombing in 1999]

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|Southwest = St. James's Park
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