Old Compton Street

...Compton Cinema Club). Dougie Millings, who was the famous Beatles tailor, 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...

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...a cheap feed: Edgware Road's Lebanese cafes, Whitechapel's Pakistani eateries and Soho's timeless good value restaurants like Stockpot on Old Compton Street. John Soane's House Admission is free to this astonishing house (www.soane.org)...

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...on the adjoining Phoenix Street. An interesting local feature can be found in the middle of Charing Cross Road at its junction with Old Compton Street. Beneath the grille in the traffic island in the middle of the road, the old road...

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...member of the British National Party called David Copeland planted bombs in Brixton, Brick Lane (where I live), and a gay pub in Old Compton Street. He managed to lodge a nail deep in a baby's skull, and to murder a pregnant woman, her...

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...at its peak during the 18th century there were no fewer than eleven pubs on the road and many illegal brothels. Floral Street was also the Old Compton Street of its time with a lage gay community, a pillory stood in the street which was...

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...Who's Who he lists 'wild life' as one of his hobbies. Given that outrageous wardrobe, who can be surprised? He could walk down Soho's Old Compton Street in that jacket and be sure of attracting a few wolf whistles. These two great...

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...Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine often frequented drinking haunts here. As might be expected of one of London's more entertaining districts, Old Compton Street had its resident curiosity in the form of Wombwell's Menagerie. George Wombwell kept...

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...for wear, Jo was determined the night wasn't over and continued her partying at the private members' bar Gerry's Club round the corner in Old Compton Street. On her bar crawl, Jo was accompanied by party planner Fran Cutler and Scott...

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...to male friendship, the younger generation live in a golden age. Straight men in their twenties and thirties should organise a parade on Old Compton Street to give thanks to gay activists for liberating them, too. 'I Love You, Man' (15)...

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...Modern British food in an airy art deco room. Next we're off out and about the buzzing streets of Covent Garden and Soho. The Lab bar on Old Compton Street is a great place with hip folk sipping swish cocktails, right in the thick of it...

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