Wardour Street
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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
Wardour Street, looking north from outside St Anne's Church, Soho
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
Old Compton Street
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Old Compton Street is a road that runs east–west through Soho in the West End of London, named after Henry Compton who raised funds for St Anne's Church in 1686. The area, particularly this street, be
Wardour Street
…Street) to what is now Cockspur Street. The old plan shows that this lane follows the modern road almost exactly, including bends at Brewer Street and Old Compton Street. The road is also a major thoroughfare on Faithorne and Newcourt's map surveyed between 1643 and 1647. Although they do not give it a name, it is shown…
Eastern end of Old Compton Street
Charing Cross Road at the junction with Old Compton Street, with traffic island and grate through which a Little Compton Street sign is visible
Little Compton Street sign visible in a utility tunnel
The street in 1960, showing the Prince Edward Theatre while it was operating as the Casino Cinema