Shopping
Carnaby Street in the sixties: John Stephen and the mod shops
A shabby Soho backstreet, a Glasgow-born tailor's assistant and a Time magazine cover story: how Carnaby Street became the sound and look of the sixties.
31 October 2026 · 4 minTag
History
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History
Soho Square: the lawn at lunchtime, and 350 years of history
Laid out in the 1680s as King Square, given a statue that left for Harrow Weald and came back, and home to a hut that is really a tool shed: Soho Square, and where to eat on the lawn.
17 October 2026 · 4 min
History
How Chinatown came to Gerrard Street
From the docks of Limehouse to a pedestrianised Soho street, with a paifang gate and two stone lions to prove it.
11 September 2026 · 5 min
Shopping
Algerian Coffee Stores, the Old Compton Street shop of 1887
A takeaway espresso, a bag of house blend and a 19th-century counter: the Old Compton Street shop that has outlasted most of Soho.
30 May 2026 · 3 min