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Soho Village Fete the French House Soho.Live 30 Years Jazz Week The Soho Society’s Free and yet Priceless Magazine SOHO VILLAGE FETE THE FRENCH HOUSE SOHO.LIVE 30 YEARS JAZZ WEEK SOHO FOOD FEAST SOHO clarion NO. 173 SUMMER THE CLARION CALL OF THE SOHO SOCIETY 2019 Best Estate Agent in Central London & greaterlondonproperties.co.uk CONTENTS 3 20 Editorial Restaurant Review 30 Kricket 9 Seven Dials 2019 Anniversaries 20th Century Fox - a view from 21 31 the developer Dan De La Motte The closure of Gino’s 11 22 32 Bar Bruno Soho Bakers Club Recipe Soho.Live Jazz Week 12, 13 23, 24, 35 32 Ward Councillors Ward Councillors Cllr Richard Beddoe Cllr Tim Barnes Playland by Anthony Daly Cllr Ian Adams Cllr Jonathan Glanz Book review by Tim Lord Cllr Pancho Lewis 15 33 Robbi Walters Interview 26 News from St Anne’s Exercise Classes for over 50s 17 34 27 Soho - the heart of LGBT Now it’s goodbye to all that 30 Years of The French 36 18 Soho Waiters Race Soho Fete History SOHO NEWS Pages 4-8 Closures Oxford Street Developments Ward Panel We’re Watching Oxford Circus (Vehicle Closure) Soho Neighbourhood Forum 20th Century Fox Licensing Report Soho Hospital for Women THE SOHO SOCIETY St Anne’s Tower, 55 Dean Street, London W1D 6AF | Tel no: 0300 302 1301 [email protected] | Twitter: @sohosocietyw1 Facebook: The Soho Society | www.thesohosociety.org.uk CONTRIBUTORS Tim Lord | Jane Doyle | Lucy Haine | Jonathan Glanz | Tim Barnes | Pancho Lewis Reverend Simon Buckley | Steve Muldoon | Matthew Bennett | Soho Bakers Club Richard Piercy (photographer) | David Gleeson | Richard Brown | Philip Antscherl Phillip Baldwin | Dan De La Motte | Jack Perraudin Hugo MacGregor-Craig (design) | Joel Levack EDITOR Jane Doyle www.thesohosociety.org.uk 1 Soho Neighbourhood Forum Soho Neighbourhood Forum Find Soho Neighbourhood Do you live, work or visit Soho? Forum at the Soho Summer Fete We need you! to complete the plan! Sign-up as a member to the Sunday 30 June 2019 Forum to keep updated on the 12.30pm-6pm latest news and come along to Wardour Street, London our AGM to find out more. The Soho Neighbourhood Forum Soho Neighbourhood Forum will be on-hand to update you on AGM: the draft Neighbourhood Plan and our upcoming activities and Wednesday 3 July 2019 events this year. 6pm-7.45pm First Floor We are keen to protect Soho’s Conference Room reputation for creativity and 29-39 Soho Square diversity. Our Draft Plan supports W1D 3QS the heritage of Soho while enhancing sustainable growth. planforsoho.org planforsoho.org planforsoho.org planforsoho planforsoho planforsoho EDITORIAL Soho Good fences make Good Neighbours rom the ages of 7 to 14 much of my spare time Bryan Burroughs once explained was spent on my parents’ sheep farm in East to me that the magic of Soho is Lancashire. On a well run farm much of the that throughout each 24 hour Neighbourhood Fwork is properly routine. Feed is taken out in the period, Soho is host to office workers, those seeking summer when the land is dry and stored close to entertainment and relaxation and sleeping residents. the stock so it can be more easily distributed in the It was his and the Society’s aim to ensure all these Forum winter. The careful maintenance of the ewes’ feet activities and people could work well together. The and the cleanliness of their behinds is carried out on a boundaries need to be set, not change too often and regular schedule. Occasional bursts of activity would to be taken somewhat seriously. take place when the hay was made, sheep clipped The licensing group of the Society is working on and dipped or lambs taken to market. Even lambing the boundary between evening and night because of Soho itself, which might involve late nights, proceeded on noise from errant drinkers (much like the fattening a gentle timescale set by the ewes themselves. Things calves) and the need to protect the residents’ sleep. had to be done but urgency and alarm were generally Bob O’Dell works on maintaining the boundary Neighbourhood avoided. There was, however, one exception to this; between commercial premises and the “shared” an escape of stock. pavement which is increasingly appropriated for Forum tables and chairs to the exclusion of the public. In the summer, the river would be low and fattening Quentin is maintaining the fence between the shared calves, attracted to sweeter grass, might wade across pavement and its use for the commercial storage Find Soho Neighbourhood Do you live, work or visit Soho? - this makes it sound like Wyoming but in fact it was of rubbish bags. Matthew mends a fence between Forum at the Soho Summer Fete We need you! Clitheroe. A clever ewe might find a way to push the need for development and the public interest in to complete the plan! through the wire fence (such ewes were sent to market retaining our historic buildings and the management Sign-up as a member to the before others could learn from them). A walker may of construction noise and nuisance. Sunday 30 June 2019 Forum to keep updated on the have left a gate open. A fence may fail through lack of latest news and come along to proper maintenance. At that point the mood of the 12.30pm-6pm farm changes to one of deep seriousness. Whether Wardour Street, London our AGM to find out more. your stock had escaped or you were unwillingly hosting your neighbour’s fattening calves it was all The Soho Neighbourhood Forum Soho Neighbourhood Forum hands on deck. Animals straying cause unpredictable will be on-hand to update you on AGM: and adverse consequences. Sheep could stray on to a the draft Neighbourhood Plan road and cause accidents. Crops could be damaged. and our upcoming activities and Wednesday 3 July 2019 Stock could be hurt and you were responsible for 6pm-7.45pm even trespassing stock while on your land. One’s events this year. reputation amongst the community of local farmers First Floor was at stake based on how these crises were handled. We are keen to protect Soho’s Conference Room Polite yet serious phone calls were made. At home reputation for creativity and 29-39 Soho Square everyone stopped what they were doing until the diversity. Our Draft Plan supports W1D 3QS animals has been found, identified, safely corralled Obviously, the good farmers, in addition to mending the heritage of Soho while and eventually returned. In the countryside, good fences would also attend the village show to show off farmers maintain fences well. Once resolved, stories their prize animals. This year the Soho Village Fete enhancing sustainable growth. of heroism in finding the errant stock would be told is on the 30 June. Come and meet the good farmers planforsoho.org in the pub. Drinks would be bought. of the village to tell stories, sing, dance and be merry. planforsoho.org Bring your dog if you are lucky enough to have one. planforsoho.org planforsoho Soho no longer has sheep or rivers or fences as such, but it does have boundaries. For example, boundaries Tim Lord planforsoho planforsoho between the evening and the night, and the night and the morning. The much loved and deeply missed www.thesohosociety.org.uk 3 SOHO NEWS Closures, new beginnings, and combines traditional and other things! Chinese cooking techniques with It seems that the Windmill Club the spices of India. Their menu is being taken over by Cirque The first item, a closure, sadly, is looks great. le Soir and, after an extensive the newly refurbished Kettner’s Robata is a new Japanese revamp, will open as a “celebrity Restaurant in Romilly Street, izakaya-style restaurant at 56 cocktail bar”. The Windmill has which is now open only to Soho Old Compton Street. It is styled a long history, and was famed House members and hotel as a ‘Japanese pub’ serving up for never closing, even during guests. This is very sad as it has dishes such as Soft Shell Crab the worst days of the Blitz, but been a Soho institution for well bayo with spicy mayo, green it lost its adult entertainment over 100 years. The champagne mango, purple shiso, cucumber licence last year after an bar remains open to the public, and red chilli, Miso Aubergine undercover sting operation and food is available. with pickled shimiji mushroom found that dancers were flouting and Robata red chilli, and more, the ‘no touching’ rules. Then Jackson & Rye on cooked over a grill. Wardour Street has closed, and Comptoir Gourmand is a new For the avoidance of doubt and been replaced by Martha’s, bakery and patisserie that has contrary to some press reports, which bills itself as a “retro- just opened in Noel Street. It’s the Society did not seek it’s styled restaurant with American a small family run business closure. food and revue acts … American that started life in Bermondsey, food, jazz and more in Soho …” and everything (which looks Developments Also opened at the end of delicious) is freshly made. May is Chik’n at 187 Wardour The fiasco that is 90 - 104 Street, the premises vacated Berwick Street is still ongoing. by BRGR.co, billed as “Proper We were told that it was due to fried chicken in Soho” and finish in September, but no one selling “top class fried chicken is holding their breath. It has sandwiches with some new been beset by problems, delays, additions to the menu too.” residents have suffered immense Whilst on the subject of chicken hardship, it has more or less there is also Coqfighter, a new killed Berwick Street market venture, coming to 75 Beak and ….
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