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London Districts Soho Documentary
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Subtitles available under video via CC button. Series Soundtrack available at https://yeththar.bandcamp.com/follow_me. Watch #LondonDistricts on TV @ Sky 117, Freeview 8, Virgin Media 159 and YouView 8 via London Live. • -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • Full Series Playlist - https://bit.ly/2CcZFSA • Facebook fanpage - facebook.com/LondonDistricts/ • Twitter - / dewyneuk • Instagram - instagram.com/dewynelindsay/ • -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • Soho is a district in the City of Westminster covering a square mile and is bordered by Oxford Street, Charing Cross Road, Regent’s Street and Leicester Square. • In the 1500's when Soho was just farmland, men would cry out the word So-hoe when hunting animals and so this word stuck, apparently. • Soho, has always been London's official red-light district. Drugs and prostitution have been rife in the area since 1778 but gentrification together with the internet are gradually grinding this tradition to a halt. Many remnants can still be seen around Soho in the form of sex-shops, peep shows and open doorways simply displaying the sign 'model'. • Berwick Street Market is an old one from the 1770's when shopkeepers displayed their wares along the pavements. It became the place to find rare and exotic new ingredients in London like tomatoes and grapefruits just before 1900. • Soho is strongly associated with the music industry. Berwick Street is now known as ‘The Golden Mile of Vinyl’ for avid record collectors with several notable record shops still very much in play. • Soho is jammed with small, independent establishments giving it a cosmopolitan and community feel around the table-lined streets. This came to be from a mass influx of the French in 1685, the Italians and Greeks in the 18th and 19th centuries and the Chinese in the 20th century, all of whom have left their mark on Soho’s social scene. • In 1854, this aristocratic lifestyle of Soho was brought to an end by a serious outbreak of Cholera caused by infected water from a public water pump similar to this one. After Dr John Snow traced the infection to the pump, he got the pump handle removed along with almost every house on the street. The way Soho looks today has a lot to do with the neglect and aftermath of that distressing episode. • The pub and restaurant trade in Soho improved dramatically with new theatres popping up nearby. They became the standard venues for hungry, thirsty theatre-goers during the 1930s. These places were also filled with struggling artists, musicians and authors. • This district is a concentrated area for the post-production of independent film, video and television. Twentieth Century House in Soho Square was built in 1937 for Twentieth Century Fox along with British film studios such as Pinewood and others. A quarter of all workers in this district are employed in a creative discipline. • After the 1666 Great Fire of London, housing development accelerated including larger, elegant houses for the aristocracy to form the Soho street pattern you see today.
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