Characters of FitzroviaBetween Oxford Street and Euston Road, bordered by Portland Place, Gower Street and Tottenham Court Road, lies a mysteriously evocative area, close to London's heart, known as Fitzrovia. For over 400 years this is where the bohemian life of London has flourished. Fitzrovia is a strange mix with an extraordinary history, one that also holds up a mirror to the rest of the city. For the avant garde, for artists and artisan, Fitzrovia has been a home, the creative hub, full of studios, craftshops and trysting places. Of sex, murder and mayhem, Fitzrovia has had more than its fair share. Alongside grandeur and elegance, exiles and emigres occupied shabby tenements and introduced new styles of cafe and restaurant. Revolutionaries and radicals gathered here. Spivs and spies, princes and prostitutes all jostled in its streets. Medical professionals mingled in institutions set up by free-thinkers, with intellectuals and inventors. Radio and television programmes from Fitzrovia, broadcast to the world, shaped the culture of an empire and a nation. Independent publishing clusters in Fitzrovia, near the legendary pubs where writers and poets met and drank in the 1940s and 50s. From bawdy house |
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... middle of the century Fitzrovia Square would no longer be such a fashionable or desirable address . A visiting Frenchman , flinching from the squalid streets , from where the middle classes had begun to depart , wrote , ' I recall the ...
... middle of the century Fitzrovia Square would no longer be such a fashionable or desirable address . A visiting Frenchman , flinching from the squalid streets , from where the middle classes had begun to depart , wrote , ' I recall the ...
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... middle of the Schmidt's premises , a burned - out house had not been re - built as late as the 1970s . And by then Fitzrovia property was being sought out , often brutally , by developers keen to buy up the kaleidoscope streets of old ...
... middle of the Schmidt's premises , a burned - out house had not been re - built as late as the 1970s . And by then Fitzrovia property was being sought out , often brutally , by developers keen to buy up the kaleidoscope streets of old ...
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Mike Pentelow, Marsha Rowe. Lose the middle notes , and you lose - all . The very high and the very low notes are the ornaments . Adelina Patti on the importance for any singer of cultivating middle tones Honest vulgarity is neither ...
Mike Pentelow, Marsha Rowe. Lose the middle notes , and you lose - all . The very high and the very low notes are the ornaments . Adelina Patti on the importance for any singer of cultivating middle tones Honest vulgarity is neither ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Rabblerousers Radicals and Revolutionaries 2 Royalty and Gentry | 2 |
Murderers and Manslaughterers | 3 |
Copyright | |
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