She then got a job as a dancer at Murray's Cabaret Club in Soho where she met Christine Keeler who introduced her to her friend, the well-connected osteopath Stephen Ward, and to an ex-lover, the slum landlord Peter Rachman.

The Comedy Store is a comedy club located in Soho, London, England, opened in 1979 by Don Ward and Peter Rosengard.

Soho Ward has adopted a Ward Support Officer with the current holder of the title being Tariq M. Khan.

* Birmingham City Council Soho Ward

The leading figure behind the establishment of the society as a more organised body during this early period seems to have been Matthew Boulton: his home at Soho House in Handsworth was the principal venue for meetings, and in 1776 he is recorded as planning " to make many Motions to the Members respecting new Laws, and regulations, such as will tend to prevent the decline of a society which I hope will be lasting.

Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London.

A detailed mural depicting Soho characters, including writer Dylan Thomas and jazz musician George Melly, is in Broadwick Street, at the junction with Carnaby Street.

* Dean Street is home to the Soho Theatre, and a pub called The French House which was during World War II popular with the French Government-in-exile.

Expresso Bongo ( 1959 ) is a British film which features striptease at a club in Soho, London.

Another documentary film, which looked at the unglamorous side of striptease, is the 1966 film called ," Strip ", filmed at the Phoenix Club in Soho.

The borough is divided into a number of localities including the ancient political district of Westminster around the Palace of Westminster ; the shopping areas around Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Bond Street ; and the night time entertainment district of Soho.

In 1798 Murdoch returned to Birmingham to work in the Soho foundry and continued his experiments with gas, as part of which he lit the interior of the Soho main building, although it is likely that it was lit only in part and not ( at this time ) permanently.

His identification of the Broad Street pump as the cause of the Soho epidemic is considered the classic example of epidemiology.

It is now at Soho Square.

It is generally regarded as marking the boundary between Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia, linking Somers Town with Soho at either end.

It is possible to hire cycle rickshaws from places in Piccadilly, Leicester Square, Soho and Covent Garden, along with other parts of central London.

Norris is currently Chairman of Soho Estates.

This belt-driven bicycle | belt-drive on a Trek Bicycle Corporation | Trek Soho is fitted with a sprocket too.

There is a staggered junction with the A4040 as the road passes through Handsworth ( at this point known as Soho Road ) which is a particular bottleneck with narrow lanes, on-street parking, bad drivers and several close-set junction, often very badly congested.

St Giles Circus is the intersection of Oxford Street, New Oxford Street, Charing Cross Road and Tottenham Court Road in the St Giles district of the West End of London, near to Soho, Covent Garden, Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia.

The Soho ( Chinese: ; also and 荷南美食區 ; formally 中環蘇豪區 ) district in Hong Kong is an entertainment zone located in Central and bordering Sheung Wan, within Central.

The Central-Mid-Levels escalator was built in 1993 ; the now vibrant character of Soho is attributed to the creation of the escalator system, which at the time was the longest escalator system in the world.

Soho also is home to the first fulltime comedy club in Asia, The TakeOut Comedy Club Hong Kong.

Nowhere is the contrast more apparent than on the northern edge of Soho, on Hollywood Road itself where the brand new multistorey Centre Stage upscale residential complex towers alongside the historic Man Mo Temple.

Wardour Street is a street in Soho, London.

Then south to Compton Street is Old Soho ; then down to Coventry St is Princes Street.

In July 1982, the opening of the Batcave in London's Soho provided a prominent meeting point for the emerging scene, which would be briefly labeled " positive punk " by the NME in a special issue with a front cover in early 1983.

For ten years the concerts were organized by Mrs. Theresa Cornelys, a retired Venetian opera singer who owned a concert hall at Carlisle House in Soho Square, then the height of fashionable events.

In the same year James Watt visited Birmingham on the recommendation of his business patron John Roebuck, being shown around the Soho Manufactory by Small and Darwin in Boulton's absence.

Shortly after his arrival Lunar meetings moved from Sunday afternoons to Mondays to accommodate Priestley's duties as a clergyman, while the society's dependence on Matthew Boulton was lessened by holding meetings at other members ' houses in addition to Soho House.

Joseph Priestley himself was driven from the town, leaving England entirely for the United States in 1794, William Withering's house was invaded by rioters and Matthew Boulton and James Watt had to arm their employees to protect the Soho Manufactory.

William Bloye's gold-covered statue Boulton, Watt and Murdoch, in central Birmingham. Among memorials to the Society and its members are the Moonstones ; two statues of Watt and a statue of Boulton, Watt and Murdoch by William Bloye ; and the museum at Soho House – all in Birmingham, England.

In 1931 he had a painting accepted for display by the Royal Academy and exhibited his work with the so-called " Soho Group ".

The growth of underground culture was facilitated by the emergence of alternative weekly publications like IT ( International Times ) and OZ magazine which featured psychedelic and progressive music together with the counter culture lifestyle, which involved long hair, and the wearing of wild shirts from shops like Mr Fish, Granny Takes a Trip and old military uniforms from Carnaby Street ( Soho ) and Kings Road ( Chelsea ) boutiques.

( One ticket to the private exhibition, illustrated by Samuel Alkin and printed with ' Admission to see Mr Wedgwood's copy of The Portland Vase, Greek Street, Soho, between 12 o ' clock and 5 ', was bound into the Wedgwood catalogue on view in the Victoria and Albert Museum's British Galleries.

It was first screened at the Old Compton Street cinema club in Soho, London in 1977, in an uncut form and without certification from BBFC secretary James Ferman ; the premises were raided by the Metropolitan Police after a few days.

The area of Soho was grazing farmland until 1536, when it was taken by Henry VIII as a royal park for the Palace of Whitehall.

Meanwhile the southern part of what became the parish of St. Anne, Soho, was sold by the Crown in parcels in the 16th and 17th centuries, with part going to Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester.

The French church in Soho Square was founded by Huguenots in the 17th century.

The Soho name has been imitated by other entertainment and restaurant districts such as Soho, Hong Kong ; SoHo, New York ; and Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires.

Night-time traffic surveys carried by Westminster Council between 10 pm and 4 am indicate that Old Compton Street, Dean Street, and Frith Street experienced the highest levels of traffic within the Soho area.

In 1960, the film Beat Girl cast Christopher Lee as a sleazy Soho strip club owner who gets stabbed to death by a stripper.

Also produced in 1965 was Carousella, a documentary about Soho striptease artistes, directed by John Irvin.

In 1802 as part of the public celebrations of the Peace of Amiens he made a public exhibition of his lighting by illuminating the exterior of the Soho Foundry.

It was alleged by Geoffrey Robertson that Widgery sent his clerk to Soho one lunchtime to buy £ 20 worth of the hardest porn he could find.

In the 1770s fashionable Londoners went to the masquerades organized by Teresa Cornelys at Carlisle House in Soho Square, and later to the Pantheon.

He also became an active member of the London socialist movement, associating with other leftists at the 1917 Club in Gerrard Street, Soho, which was also frequented by such notables as Ramsay MacDonald, Aldous Huxley, H. G.

* elektraZenSuite, medium-length film by Alessandro Brucini, based on texts by Aeschylus, Sophocles, William Shakespeare, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Sylvia Plath, and the Zen Buddhist monk Takuan Soho.