Wardour Street is a street in Soho, City of Westminster, London. It is a one-way street that runs north from Leicester Square, through Chinatown, across Shaftesbury Avenue to Oxford Street. Throughout the 20th century the West End street became a centre for the British film industry and the popular music scene.
Wardour Street, looking north from outside St Anne's Church
Film House at 142 Wardour Street, formerly the headquarters of the Associated-British Pathé film company
The former premises of Willy Clarkson on Wardour Street
Chinatown is an ethnic enclave in the City of Westminster, London, bordering Soho to its north and west, Theatreland to the south and east. The enclave currently occupies the area in and around Gerrard Street. It contains a number of Chinese restaurants, bakeries, supermarkets, souvenir shops, and other Chinese-run businesses. The first Chinatown was located in Limehouse in the East End.
Main gate on Wardour Street
Chinese pavilion at Newport Place, removed in 2016
Lee Ho Fook's is referenced in "Werewolves of London"
Chinatown, New Year 2009