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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... appearance at the Oxford Music Hall was MARIA ' KILKENNY KATE ' LOFTUS ( 1857-1940 ) . She appeared in 1877 , went on to international fame and became known as ' the Sarah Bernhardt of the Halls ' . Another was the comedian HARRY TATE ...
... appearance at the Oxford Music Hall was MARIA ' KILKENNY KATE ' LOFTUS ( 1857-1940 ) . She appeared in 1877 , went on to international fame and became known as ' the Sarah Bernhardt of the Halls ' . Another was the comedian HARRY TATE ...
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... appeared in books on female flagellants . As a lad he lived in Truro where he was regularly beaten by his father until a Dr Wolcott ( who later became a well - known satirist ) helped him to escape by employing him to clean knives and ...
... appeared in books on female flagellants . As a lad he lived in Truro where he was regularly beaten by his father until a Dr Wolcott ( who later became a well - known satirist ) helped him to escape by employing him to clean knives and ...
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... appeared in the film Hound of the Baskervilles . Major Klein ran the pub from 1938 until his death in 1964. He quirkily initiated all his new male customers by snipping off the ends of their ties and hanging them behind the bar - his ...
... appeared in the film Hound of the Baskervilles . Major Klein ran the pub from 1938 until his death in 1964. He quirkily initiated all his new male customers by snipping off the ends of their ties and hanging them behind the bar - his ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Rabblerousers Radicals and Revolutionaries 2 Royalty and Gentry | 2 |
Murderers and Manslaughterers | 3 |
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