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Shaftesbury Avenue

March 08, 2023

For the racehorse, see Shaftesbury Avenue (horse).

Shaftesbury Avenue is a major road in the West End of London, named after The 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. It runs north-easterly from Piccadilly Circus to New Oxford Street, crossing Charing Cross Road at Cambridge Circus. From Piccadilly Circus to Cambridge Circus, it is in the City of Westminster, and from Cambridge Circus to New Oxford Street, it is in the London Borough of Camden.

Shaftesbury Avenue in 2016 with West End theatres pictured along the right side of the road
Shaftesbury Avenue from Piccadilly Circus in 1949
The Forbidden Planet comic store on the road

Shaftesbury Avenue was built between 1877 and 1886 by the architect George Vulliamy and the engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette,[1][2] to provide a north–south traffic artery through the crowded districts of St. Giles and Soho. It was also part of a slum clearance measure, to push impoverished workers out of the city centre.[citation needed] Although the street's construction was stalled by legislation requiring rehousing some of these displaced residents, overcrowding persisted. Charles Booth's Poverty Map shows the neighbourhood makeup shortly after Shaftesbury Avenue opened.

The avenue is generally considered the heart of London's West End theatre district, with the Lyric, Apollo, Gielgud and Sondheim theatres clustered together on the west side of the road between Piccadilly Circus and Charing Cross Road. At the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road there is also the large Palace Theatre. Finally, the north-eastern end of the road has another large theatre, the Shaftesbury Theatre.

Also on Shaftesbury Avenue is the former Saville Theatre, which became a cinema in 1970. It was first known as ABC1 and ABC2 but, since 2001, it has been the Odeon Covent Garden. Another cinema, the Soho Curzon, is located about halfway along the street.

Between 1899 and 1902, no. 67 Shaftesbury Avenue was the location of the Bartitsu School of Arms and Physical Culture, which is the first commercial Asian martial arts training school in the Western world.[3]

Shaftesbury Avenue marks the boundary of three discrete West End areas. The subsection of the road from Piccadily Circus to Cambridge Circus marks the southern border of Soho. Of that subsection a slightly shorter stretch thereof, from Great Windmill Street to Cambridge Circus, denotes the southern edge of the Soho gay village. Overlapping the gay village boundary, the still-shorter part of the street from Wardour Street to Greek Street marks the interface between gay Soho and London's Chinatown.

The number of Chinese businesses on the street has been on the increase. On the ground level in Aug 2007, there were two traditional Chinese medicine practices, five Chinese restaurants, three Chinese supermarkets, three Chinese travel agents, two Chinese mobile phone outlets, a Chinese cake shop, two Chinese hair salons, a Chinese fishmonger, a Chinese newsagent, a Chinese bureau de change, and three Chinese banks.[4]

In the evening, street artists gather on the pavement outside the HQ of ICE - International Currency Exchange and Raphaels Bank (previously the home of NatWest) at the Piccadilly Circus end of Shaftesbury Avenue, and produce portraits for the tourists.[5]

On 27 January 2023, a maintenance worker was killed after he was crushed by a telescopic urinal on the street.[6]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Shaftesbury Avenue, volumes 31 and 32: St James Westminster, Part 2, Survey of London, 1963
  2. ^ London Sights and Attractions - Shaftesbury Avenue 6 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine, talkingcities.co.uk, 2006
  3. ^ Web page - Visiting the site of the original Bartitsu club http://bartitsusociety.com/visiting-the-site-of-the-original-bartitsu-club/
  4. ^ Chinese business directory 21 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Spectrum Radio, Aug 2007
  5. ^ Hopes of immortality, New Statesman, Nov 2001
  6. ^ Osborne, Samuel (27 January 2023). "Man dies after being crushed by pop-up telescopic urinal in London's West End". Sky News. Retrieved 28 January 2023.

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Coordinates: 51°30′43″N 0°07′55″W / 51.512°N 0.132°W / 51.512; -0.132

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