Gangsters, Pimps & Prostitutes: London's West End
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Night Clubs of Piccadilly
piccadilly is built like a house of cards. Restaurants depend on theatres and hotels, because the tourist trade. Once you lose one link in that chain, then everything becomes very difficult to resurrect. I don't think the government's package of help for the artistic industries is doing an awful lot other than support shows - which would be a success anywhere. The west end still has this atmosphere but i think it will fail if too big to fail. Whatever people may say, it's still one of the biggest cities on earth. And clearly that history still exerts a profound force. Indeed, that's taken. Ronni scott's go to soho, and you will
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