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Showing posts with label Soho. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soho. Show all posts
Saturday, March 7, 2015

The Arts and the Café Royal

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Between 29 June and 29 July 1956 the National Book League (whatever happened to this?) staged an exhibition entitled ‘London after Dark’ o...
Friday, February 6, 2015

Stephen Graham—a prince among Soho tramps

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Just a few minutes walk from Leoni’s Quo Vadis is Frith Street, now famous as the home of Private Eye , but for a century or more  the h...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Leoni’s Quo Vadis restaurant: ‘no better place in the world to dine or lunch’

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Leoni printed this praise from the film actress Evelyn Laye in a tiny promotional booklet reprinted to coincide with the Festival of Britain...
Monday, April 7, 2014

London Night and Day 1951

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London Night and Day , illustrated by Osbert Lancaster, edited by Sam Lambert (Architectural Press, 1951) Surely one of the most ente...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Eating Chinese in late 1940s Soho

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Forwarded to us by a loyal jot watcher. One restaurant was favoured by celebrities - Johnnie Mills, Bobby Howes, Coral Browne, Sandy Pow...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Little Inns of Soho - the Koh-i-Noor

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From a small book Little Inns of Soho (1948) this review of one of the few London Indian restaurants at that time. The book is by Penelop...
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