soho | Stuff About London

22/09/2024 donbrown 0

I blush as I write this, but in over 40 years in London, yesterday was the first time I’ve ever bought anything in Old Compton […]

08/08/2024 donbrown 0

There is an ancient hut in the centre of Soho Square, a half-timbered affair with beams that sag and bow. It gives the impression of […]

05/03/2020 donbrown 1

St Anne’s churchyard is a small patch of open ground at the Shaftesbury Avenue end of Wardour Street, Soho. Once the hang out of druggies […]

27/04/2017 donbrown 0

I’m having a coffee in the last of the Soho coffee bars. An absurd statement on the face of it; there are probably more places […]

20/07/2016 donbrown 0

One of the shocks of middle age is realising just how old some of the music is that one listens to. Like all right-thinking people, […]

19/11/2015 donbrown 2

[Update: the good news, if you read the comments below, is that Bradley’s is safe until at least 2018. So even I might get around […]