The Windmill Theatre in Great Windmill Street, London, was a variety and revue theatre best known for its nude tableaux vivants, which began in 1932 and lasted until its reversion to a cinema in 1964. Many prominent British comedians of the post-war years started their careers at the theatre.
The Windmill Club in 2009
Great Windmill Street is a thoroughfare running north–south in Soho, London, crossed by Shaftesbury Avenue.
The street has had a long association with music and entertainment, most notably the Windmill Theatre, and is now home to the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum and the Trocadero shopping centre.
Great Windmill Street looking towards Shaftesbury Avenue
William Hunter plaque on what is now the side of the Lyric Theatre.
The Windmill Club, formerly the Windmill Theatre, now a table dancing club.