Broadwick Street
Broadwick Street (formerly Broad Street) is a street in Soho, City of Westminster, London. It runs for 0.18 miles (0.29 km) approximately west–east between Marshall Street and Wardour Street, crossing Berwick Street.
Broad Street was notorious as the centre of an
A replica pump, together with an explanatory plaque, was erected close to the original location in 1992. The original pump was at the junction of Broad Street and Cambridge Street (today Lexington Street), close to the back wall of what today is the '
A house on the corner of Broadwick and Marshall streets was the birthplace and childhood home of William Blake.[1]
The street crosses, or meets, Wardour Street, Duck Lane, Berwick Street, Hopkins Street, Ingestre Place, Poland Street, Lexington Street, Dufours Place, Marshall Street and Carnaby Street.
Current businesses on Broadwick Street include Yauatcha, a noted Chinese restaurant.
Current occupants
- No. 6: Agent Provocateur
- Nos. 15–17: Yauatcha
- No. 25: temper soho
- No. 31: itsu
- No. 33: Hearst Corporation
- No. 35: Pret a Manger
- No. 39: John Snow pub
- No. 71: Ooyala
- No. 72: Hearst Corporation
Former occupants
Nos. 48 & 50, Padgett & Braham Ltd. and Wakely & Wheeler Ltd, goldsmiths & silversmiths. Also at the same premises were T & A Wise Ltd. engravers, and The Flutemakers Guild, makers of flutes in precious metals.
References
- ^ Ackroyd, P. (1999) Blake London:Vintage
51°30′49″N 00°08′09″W / 51.51361°N 0.13583°W
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