This free self-guided walk in Soho, London will take you around the best of the area and reveal the secret corners and hidden courtyards locals love.
Today we are posting another preview photo from our upcoming book "Store Front II: A History a Preserved" which is due in stores by mid-November. Auggie's Coffee in the South Village or what is now known as SoHo is no longer in business. Peter Longo, the owner of Porto Rico Coffee and Tea took over this #vintage #coffee and #espresso shop but was forced to close it a few years ago when his lease expired and rent was increased. We loved its classic #signage complete with old phone exchange "W06" which you rarely find these days. #storefront #disappearingfaceofnewyork #font #typography STORE FRONT II - A HISTORY PRESERVED Named by Publishers Weekly as one of the 35 "Big Indie Books of Fall" FALL 2015 "James and Karla Murray have been capturing impeccably accurate photographs of New York City since the 1990s. In the course of their travels throughout the city’s boroughs they’ve also taken great care to document the stories behind the scenery. The Murrays have rendered the out of the way bodegas, candy shops and record stores just as faithfully as the historically important institutions and well known restaurants, bars and cafes. From the Stonewall Inn to the Brownsville Bike Shop and The Pink Pussycat to Smith and Wolensky, the Murrays reveal how New York’s beleaguered mom & pop business stand in sharp contrast to the city’s rapidly evolving corporate facade." 348 Pages Hardcover 13 1/4" x 12" $65
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Why you should spend a day in Soho from a Londoner
A fashion history of Victorian mantelets, and mantle clothing. Line drawings of mantelets to assist in silhouette recognition.
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Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of London's West End. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation as a base for the sex industry in addition to its night life and as a location for the headquarters of leading film companies. Since the 1980s, the area has undergone considerable transformation. It now is predominantly a fashionable district of upmarket restaurants and media offices, with only a small remnant of sex industry venues. Circa 1910: The smallest shop in London at 4 Bateman Street, Soho. The shop, occupied by a cobbler, is six feet long, five feet high and two feet deep. The rent is three pounds a week.(Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 10 April 1913: English lessons for Italian children at a school in Soho. Signor de Villa instructs boys in reading and spelling.(Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) 14 June 1913: Crowds watch the cortege of suffragette Emily Davison, who was killed by the King's horse at the Derby, passing Eros at Piccadilly Circus.(Hulton Archive/Getty Images) November 1933: The bustling market on Berwick Street in the heart of London's Soho.(Fox Photos/Getty Images) 24 November 1933: Men raise their glasses in a public house in London's Soho.(Fox Photos/Getty Images) circa 1937: A small crowd gathers to watch a man trying to extract himself from chains on a street in Soho.(General Photographic Agency/Getty Images) 22 May 1940: A shopkeeper removes the word 'Italian' from the sign above his restaurant in Soho, after anti-Italian riots throughout Britain.(Arthur Tanner/Fox Photos/Getty Images) 15 August 1945: Crowds assemble in Piccadilly Circus to celebrate the news of Japan's surrender and the end of the Second World War.(Keystone/Getty Images) 1 January 1955: Revellers cram into London's Piccadilly Circus to count in the New Year.(Harry Kerr/BIPs/Getty Images) 1955: Waiters carrying half bottles of champagne set off on the annual waiters' race from Soho Square to Greek Street.(Slim Aarons/Getty Images) 10 July 1955: The prize-winning float parades through the streets upon the opening of the Soho Fair.(Fred Ramage/Keystone/Getty Images) August 1955: A rainy night in Soho(BIPS/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 25 November 1955: US troops and their girlfriends say goodbye in Piccadilly Circus after leaving the Club Americana, a Saturday night jazz club open from midnight until 7am(Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 12 June 1956: People look at notices outside a newsagent's shop on Frith Street, where a newspaper board reads: 'They saved London'(John Firth/BIPs/Getty Images) 8 July 1956: A man in drag heads a carnival procession down Old Compton Street during the Soho Fair.(Ron Gerelli/Express/Getty Images) 21 July 1956: Andria Loran, a model who was democratically elected Queen of Soho 1956, stands in the doorway of the Mambo Club, keenly noticed by an onlooker.(Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 5 September 1956: Youths hang out on the backstreets of Soho.(Werner Rings/BIPs/Getty Images) February 1958: Singer and guitarist Bill Kent entertains some teenage fans in The Two I's Coffee Bar on Old Compton Street in Soho.(John Pratt/Keystone Features/Getty Images) 18 June 1960: Policemen try to control fans of the rock and roll singer, Tommy Steele, outside Saint Patrick's Church on Soho Square, where he is to be married to Ann Donoghue.(Fox Photos/Getty Images) 1 November 1960: The reverend Vernon Mitchell visits numerous strip clubs in Soho to determine what should be censored.(Peter Dunne/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) January 1963: Dressed in minuscule fur bikinis, Kean Fluffles, Angela Parker and Audrey Crane perform in London's Casino de Paris in Soho. (John Pratt/Keystone Features/Getty Images) 30 April 1965: Actress Barbara Windsor and her husband Ronnie Knight sit with Reggie Kray and his wife Frances Shea at the El Morocco nightclub in Soho, owned by the Kray Twins. (Larry Ellis/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 16 February 1966: A man sweeps his cloak around him after getting out of a sports car on Carnaby Street. (John Waterman/Fox Photos/Getty Images) 11 May 1966: Men watch as a model takes part in a photo shoot in the window of a new Henry Moss boutique on London's fashionable Carnaby Street. (John Downing/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 13 May 1966: A sign offering a brand of briar pipes for sale at a reduced rate is seen at Coleman Cohen tobacco shop in Old Compton Street. (Roberts/BIPs/Getty Images) September 1966: Two men look at each other while standing on a street corner in Soho. (BIPS/Getty Images) 27 November 1966: John Lennon, dressed as a Public Lavatory Commissionaire during the filming of the 'Not Only...But Also' Christmas Special, starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, stands outside a public convenience on Broadwick Street. (Ron Case/Keystone/Getty Images) 16 January 1973: A group of men admire the photographs in the window of Swingland Sauna and Massage Parlour in Soho. (Fox Photos/Getty Images) (via IBTimes UK)
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Shoeshiners, singers and strippers … Shot in Soho at London’s Photographers’ Gallery celebrates the quarter’s gloriously colourful characters and history at a time when the area is facing radical transformation
Here I am adding to my list of blankets I’d love to nap under but don’t have the patience to knit! But being a sucker for clever construction, I can’t let this one go unremarked: Purl Soho’s new Learn-to-Love-Steeks Blanket (free pattern). I know, you’re thinking “Did she just say ‘clever construction’ in a post about a blanket?” […]
Last weekend, I went on a Soho pub crawl. The neighborhood is full of beer and history. People such as Mozart and Jimi Hendrix have left their mark.
Why you should spend a day in Soho from a Londoner
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of London's West End. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation as a base for the sex industry in addition to its night life and as a location for the headquarters of leading film companies. Since the 1980s, the area has undergone considerable transformation. It now is predominantly a fashionable district of upmarket restaurants and media offices, with only a small remnant of sex industry venues. Circa 1910: The smallest shop in London at 4 Bateman Street, Soho. The shop, occupied by a cobbler, is six feet long, five feet high and two feet deep. The rent is three pounds a week.(Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 10 April 1913: English lessons for Italian children at a school in Soho. Signor de Villa instructs boys in reading and spelling.(Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) 14 June 1913: Crowds watch the cortege of suffragette Emily Davison, who was killed by the King's horse at the Derby, passing Eros at Piccadilly Circus.(Hulton Archive/Getty Images) November 1933: The bustling market on Berwick Street in the heart of London's Soho.(Fox Photos/Getty Images) 24 November 1933: Men raise their glasses in a public house in London's Soho.(Fox Photos/Getty Images) circa 1937: A small crowd gathers to watch a man trying to extract himself from chains on a street in Soho.(General Photographic Agency/Getty Images) 22 May 1940: A shopkeeper removes the word 'Italian' from the sign above his restaurant in Soho, after anti-Italian riots throughout Britain.(Arthur Tanner/Fox Photos/Getty Images) 15 August 1945: Crowds assemble in Piccadilly Circus to celebrate the news of Japan's surrender and the end of the Second World War.(Keystone/Getty Images) 1 January 1955: Revellers cram into London's Piccadilly Circus to count in the New Year.(Harry Kerr/BIPs/Getty Images) 1955: Waiters carrying half bottles of champagne set off on the annual waiters' race from Soho Square to Greek Street.(Slim Aarons/Getty Images) 10 July 1955: The prize-winning float parades through the streets upon the opening of the Soho Fair.(Fred Ramage/Keystone/Getty Images) August 1955: A rainy night in Soho(BIPS/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 25 November 1955: US troops and their girlfriends say goodbye in Piccadilly Circus after leaving the Club Americana, a Saturday night jazz club open from midnight until 7am(Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 12 June 1956: People look at notices outside a newsagent's shop on Frith Street, where a newspaper board reads: 'They saved London'(John Firth/BIPs/Getty Images) 8 July 1956: A man in drag heads a carnival procession down Old Compton Street during the Soho Fair.(Ron Gerelli/Express/Getty Images) 21 July 1956: Andria Loran, a model who was democratically elected Queen of Soho 1956, stands in the doorway of the Mambo Club, keenly noticed by an onlooker.(Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 5 September 1956: Youths hang out on the backstreets of Soho.(Werner Rings/BIPs/Getty Images) February 1958: Singer and guitarist Bill Kent entertains some teenage fans in The Two I's Coffee Bar on Old Compton Street in Soho.(John Pratt/Keystone Features/Getty Images) 18 June 1960: Policemen try to control fans of the rock and roll singer, Tommy Steele, outside Saint Patrick's Church on Soho Square, where he is to be married to Ann Donoghue.(Fox Photos/Getty Images) 1 November 1960: The reverend Vernon Mitchell visits numerous strip clubs in Soho to determine what should be censored.(Peter Dunne/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) January 1963: Dressed in minuscule fur bikinis, Kean Fluffles, Angela Parker and Audrey Crane perform in London's Casino de Paris in Soho. (John Pratt/Keystone Features/Getty Images) 30 April 1965: Actress Barbara Windsor and her husband Ronnie Knight sit with Reggie Kray and his wife Frances Shea at the El Morocco nightclub in Soho, owned by the Kray Twins. (Larry Ellis/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 16 February 1966: A man sweeps his cloak around him after getting out of a sports car on Carnaby Street. (John Waterman/Fox Photos/Getty Images) 11 May 1966: Men watch as a model takes part in a photo shoot in the window of a new Henry Moss boutique on London's fashionable Carnaby Street. (John Downing/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 13 May 1966: A sign offering a brand of briar pipes for sale at a reduced rate is seen at Coleman Cohen tobacco shop in Old Compton Street. (Roberts/BIPs/Getty Images) September 1966: Two men look at each other while standing on a street corner in Soho. (BIPS/Getty Images) 27 November 1966: John Lennon, dressed as a Public Lavatory Commissionaire during the filming of the 'Not Only...But Also' Christmas Special, starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, stands outside a public convenience on Broadwick Street. (Ron Case/Keystone/Getty Images) 16 January 1973: A group of men admire the photographs in the window of Swingland Sauna and Massage Parlour in Soho. (Fox Photos/Getty Images) (via IBTimes UK)
This free self-guided walk in Soho, London will take you around the best of the area and reveal the secret corners and hidden courtyards locals love.
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