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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... hanged for poisoning , the most famous was the American , DR HAWLEY HARVEY CRIPPEN ( 1860-1910 ) . He arrived in London in 1897 and took rooms in South Crescent , off Store Street , where he was joined by his wife , the singer Kunigunde ...
... hanged for poisoning , the most famous was the American , DR HAWLEY HARVEY CRIPPEN ( 1860-1910 ) . He arrived in London in 1897 and took rooms in South Crescent , off Store Street , where he was joined by his wife , the singer Kunigunde ...
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... hanged , and a reward of £ 100 was put on Turpin's head . He fled north , where he was arrested and taken into custody for shooting a cock . His identity was discovered , and he was charged with horse stealing , for which he was hanged ...
... hanged , and a reward of £ 100 was put on Turpin's head . He fled north , where he was arrested and taken into custody for shooting a cock . His identity was discovered , and he was charged with horse stealing , for which he was hanged ...
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... hanged The plight of fresh country girls lured into prostitution became the subject of contemporary literature . Their sexual skills were marketed in a series of guides to London prostitutes with an annual print run of 8,000 , launched ...
... hanged The plight of fresh country girls lured into prostitution became the subject of contemporary literature . Their sexual skills were marketed in a series of guides to London prostitutes with an annual print run of 8,000 , launched ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Rabblerousers Radicals and Revolutionaries 2 Royalty and Gentry | 2 |
Murderers and Manslaughterers | 3 |
Copyright | |
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