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Eric Clapton and Brian Jones both lived for a time in Soho, sharing a flat with future rock publicist, Tony Brainsby. [83] Trident Studios was based at 17 St Anne's Court, Soho and was a major London recording studio. [84] It was established by Norman and Barry Sheffield in 1968, who wanted to expand from the small studio they had above their ...
Margot Gayle with an enlarged photograph of the Jefferson Market Courthouse building. Margot McCoy Gayle (Born Sarah Margaret McCoy [1] May 14, 1908 – September 28, 2008) was an American historic preservationist, activist, and writer.
The Broad Street cholera outbreak (or Golden Square outbreak) was a severe outbreak of cholera that occurred in 1854 near Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) in Soho, London, England, and occurred during the 1846–1860 cholera pandemic happening worldwide.
Gargoyle Club, 1940 69 Dean Street in Soho, in which the Gargoyle Club was located. The Gargoyle Club was a private club on the upper floors of 69 Dean Street, Soho, London, at the corner with Meard Street. It was founded on 16 January 1925 [1] by the aristocratic socialite David Tennant, son of the First Baron Glenconner.
The term rookery originated because of the perceived similarities between a city slum and the nesting habits of the rook, a bird in the crow family. Rooks nest in large, noisy colonies consisting of multiple nests, often untidily crammed into a close group of treetops called a rookery.
Crackers, which also date back to Victorian times, are cardboard tubes wrapped in colorful paper that, when pulled apart by two people, make a loud cracking sound.
In Victorian times, Princes Street is still shown on the 1871 Ordnance Survey map. Stanford's Map of Central London 1897, at 6 inches (15 cm) to a mile (1:10560), has just two names, Wardour Street from Oxford Street to Coventry Street, and Whitcomb Street south from there. It has remained like this since, though the numbering of premises was ...
Although Britannia had long appeared on the halfpenny and farthing, the 1797 coinage was the first time she was depicted ruling the waves, an allegory for Britain's status as a maritime power. [15] The word SOHO may be seen in fine print on the face of the rock just below the shield. Boulton's pennies and twopences were meant to contain their ...