www.thesohosociety.org.uk/index.html
Registered U.K. Charity No.265632 |
Updated: 24 January 2012
The Soho Society © 2008-2012
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January 2011
Dear Reader,
We hope that you will enjoy visiting this web-site. Perhaps you have also read the latest edition of our quarterly magazine, The Soho Clarion.
Have you considered joining the Soho Society, or rejoining if your membership has lapsed? If you live, visit or work in this remarkable London village there is every reason why you should be a member of the local community society. Started in 1975, when much of Soho's residential property, small businesses and crafts people were threatened with eviction to accommodate uncontrolled office development, the Society has kept to its original promise to make the Soho Village a better place in which to live, work, trade or visit - and to enjoy.
We urge you to join now and to help this voluntary Society to maintain the ethos of this very special and remarkable London village with a difference.
From the present Soho community and the spirits of Soho residents of the past - Karl Marx, Hogarth, Logie Baird, Caneletto, Mozart, Darwin, Dreyden, Theodore King of Corsica, de Quincey, John Snow, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Hazlett, Casanova, and many others ....
Leslie Hardcastle, President
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The Soho Society's web-site aims to reflect and illustrate the ever-changing face of Soho.
The principal aims of the Society are to protect the interests of residents and businesses and to enhance the environment which we all share.
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Events in and near Soho
Chinese New Year
Celebrations
Sunday 29 January 2012
CLICK ON THE IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION
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A Tribute to
The New Piccadilly Cafe
Denman Street
narrated by Pinkietessa
"N for No-more Piccadilly Cafe. Yes, it's gawn, the caff, the building, even the block has been razed to the ground due to Westminster's Development Plans."
Click here for video
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Soho Survey
A survey about Soho is being conducted by Bahar Durmaz, a PhD candidate at the Department of Built Environment, University of Nottingham.
If you live or work in Soho then please donate a few minutes of your time
to answer the questions. Thank you.
Click for survey page
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THE AUTUMN 2011 ISSUE OF OUR QUARTERLY MAGAZINE ..
Articles include: Roof gardening, Jimmy's, Central St Martins, Adam Ant, Kingly Court and Youth Club, Marshall Street, Soho Festival pictures, Bar Italia, Soho windmills, Lucian Freud, Museum of Soho, Gerhard Richter exhibition.
NEW WESTMINSTER PLAQUE FOR SOHO
A plaque commemorating the Mont Blanc Restaurant, 16 Gerrard Street, once the meeting place of literary giants was unveiled in July 2010
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WESTMINSTER
KINGSWAY COLLEGE
PETER STREET W1
College Governors considering closure plans
READ MORE
STREET NAMES
Leo Reynolds has compiled an illustrated list of street name signs.
Carlisle Street, Foubert's Place, Marshall Street, Carnaby Street, Kingly Court and Brewer Street,
all in Soho, are shown
on his Flickr web-page
[scroll down for pictures]
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We thank Henry Helliwell
who for several years
provided hosting and server space
for this web-site.
In June 2011 Kell Gatherer took over that role.
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