Soho Walk, Part 2

Today we completed the Blue Guide Soho walk:

• Wardour Street, traditionally furniture-making, now film production
• St. Anne, a ruined Wren church 
• The Intrepid Fox pub named in 1784 for Charles James Fox
• Meard Street with well-preserved 18C houses
• Berwick Street market
• Dean Street with 18C houses and Karl Marx's house in the 1850's
• Soho Square laid out in 1680 with at statue of Charles II by Cibber in 1681
• French Protestant Church of 1893 in terracotta
• Greek Street, a haunt of Francis Bacon in the 1950's
• Cambridge Circus with the Palace Theatre of 1888
• Seven Dials area where we had lunch at Cafe Pasta
• St. Giles-in-the-Fields, on the site of a leper colony established 1101 by Queen Matilda
• Centre Point, a 1960's 36-story building formerly reviled but now beloved

Finally, we stopped in the British Museum to view a few highlights before returning to the hotel.

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