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The doors of Sohemia
If you are in the vicinity of Rathbone Place in the early evening, you will occasionally see a bunch of disparate types, myself included, disappear into the upstairs room of The Wheatsheaf pub to...
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Fiona’s fantastic life
Queen of Fitzrovia for 48 years driven out by rent hike By Clive Jennings Imagine Tottenham Street, Fitzrovia in 1964. Shortly after moving in with her boyfriend at number 28, 20-year-old Fiona Green...
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Paul Willetts and the making of The Look of Love
By Clive Jennings Many local residents and workers were surprised last year to spot Steve Coogan sporting an extravagant blond bouffant “combover” hairstyle as he strutted round the streets of Soho...
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Westminster Council to create “partnership” to manage the West End
By News Reporters Westminster City Council is to create a new partnership to manage the West End following recommendations by the West End Commission which published its report last Tuesday....
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Art shop at the heart of the swinging 60s will be priced out of Soho
By Clancy Gebler Davies Pioneering Soho art suppliers Cowling & Wilcox looks set to close around Easter 2014 after trading in Broadwick Street since 1961. Landlords Great Portland Estates (GPE)...
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Patients to contest closure of Soho Square General Practice
The Soho Square General Practice is on the first floor of the Soho Square Centre for Health & Care. A group of patients are to contest the closure of a general medical practice which serves...
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NHS England says services at Soho Square General Practice will continue and...
Services at Soho General Practice will continue but be re-procured. Soho Square General Practice which was threatened with closure at the end of September will now remain open. NHS England has written...
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Patients group meet to discuss future of Soho doctors’ surgery
Patients and their carers are invited to a meeting to discuss the future of the Soho Square General Practice at the surgery next week. Last year the doctors’ surgery was threatened with closure but...
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A poem to Dylan Thomas among readings at Covent Garden literary haunt
Artist Fiona Green, a former long-time resident of Tottenham Street in Fitzrovia, will be reading from her book of poems at a literary event in Covent Garden this Wednesday 1 July. The Poetry Cafe is a...
View ArticleResidents and business asked to say ‘no’ to Oxford Street plans
Better Oxford Street, the campaign formed by the amenity societies in Fitzrovia, Marylebone, Mayfair and Soho (and backed by Fitzrovia News) is asking residents and local business to say “no” in the...
View ArticleThe joy of Marshall Street Baths
Ms Fish tip-toes over the cold marble and slips into the stimulating waters of the newly restored and re-opened Marshall Street Baths in Soho. The post The joy of Marshall Street Baths appeared first...
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Soho’s lost post-war living room of badly behaved bohemians
The Colony Room in Dean Street W1 was a living-room-sized drinking club for members only, above an Italian restaurant up a long dirty staircase. It was at the heart of a post-war Soho packed with...
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Walking tour of London’s secret art spaces and histories
A walking tour of London arts venues, revealing secret spaces, and secret histories. Photo: Fitzrovia News. A one-hour walking tour of Fitzrovia and Soho's lesser known venues and its artistic history...
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Marking 25 years since the nail bomb attacks on Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho
Patrick Lilley. Photo: Adrian Zorzut, LDR. It was a warm, late April evening in 1999. The Admiral Duncan pub on Old Compton Street in Soho was filling fast. Drinkers were keen to kick off the Bank...
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Dean Street Tesco to be downsized in plans approved by Westminster Council
Dean Street Tesco. Photo: Fitzrovia News. A Tesco supermarket in Dean Street, Soho, will be demolished and replaced with an office block and a store almost half the size under plans approved by...
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Darren Coffield tells tales of the Queens of Bohemia at the French House
Queens of Bohemia: fabled femmes of the French House, by Darren Coffield, with a foreword by Marianne Faithfull, tells the story of the taboo-breaking women of bohemian London. Thrill to tales of the...
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Book review: Queens of Bohemia, and other Miss-Fits
Queens of Bohemia: And Other Miss-Fits by Darren Coffield, with a foreword by Marianne Faithfull, tells the story of the taboo-breaking women of bohemian London. Covering roughly the 40 years from...
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Business group lobbies Mayor to include Soho in proposed Oxford Street...
A group representing more than 150 businesses has called for Soho to be included in Sadiq Khan's proposed Oxford Street development area, in a move branded "totally outrageous" by a Westminster...
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