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Welcome to Old Compton Street, an ideal location for those seeking a
West End lifestyle. This is central London, in all its fast paced glamour, at its
best. Despite its cosmopolitan edge the area is steeped in history with many
of the buildings date from the 1730’s; it is easy to let your imagination run
away with you to a Dickensian London.
The Green Man pub occupies a site which has been a tavern since 1738
and the street boasts one of capitals oldest markets which earned itself a
reputation for selling a bewildering variety of fruit and vegetables in the
1800’s as traders attempted to supply the ingredients to the cosmopolitan
selection of restaurants that had sprung up. More recently it has become
a foodie destination with stalls such as Pizza Pilgrims, Tongue ‘n’ Cheek
(unusual cuts of cheek) and the wittily named cheese stall, the Dark Knights
of Cholesterol.
Berwick Street has always had a strong identity and is still famed for the
‘rag’ trade and music industry. It has retained its identity as a destination for
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textiles with several colourful fabric shops and haberdasheries and as such
the area is synonymous with the fashion and textile industry; if you look up
whilst walking along Berwick Street you will see many traditional tailors at
work above the shops and restaurants.
The rag trade happily co-exists alongside the music industry and this
corner of Soho is still home to central London’s largest concentration of
independent record shops. The area’s musical heritage was awakened
when an 8 year old Mozart gave afternoon concerts at the Hickford Rooms
which was the premier music venue of the time, Hanel, Arne and Boyce all
performed there. One hundred years ago the area was celebrated as the

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violin making centre of the British Isles while more currently it served as the
location for the cover photograph of the album by Oasis ‘(What’s the Story)
Morning Glory?’. Round the corner on Frith Street is Ronnie Scott’s Jazz
Café, which is famously the site of Jimi Hendrix’s last live performance.

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