Les Enfants Terribles

jon friend Anyone remember "The Last Chance Saloon " dance club. The door was next to the entrance to the tube station. Freddie Mills was shot in his car in the alley behind the station . Right across the street was the former Tottenham Court Road Lyons Corner House.
This whole corner of Oxford St & Charing Cross Road is now being rebuilt as part of the Cross Link Rail network

2013-01-24-20:19:29

Adrian Certainly remember the Lyon's tea rooms - we used to go to the Corner House on Leicester Square as a birthday treat!

2013-01-25-12:15:29

Jon Friend Yes Lyons had lots of rooms, The Brasserie, The Carvery,The Grill and Cheese. Te Bacon & Egg. Other Corner Houses were at Marble Arch, Coventry Street and The Strand. All real treats for kids when money was tighter for Mums & Dads than now

2013-07-09-22:17:06

jon f The new Crossrail & Tube station opened Dec 2015, All very shiney & new.

2015-12-05-21:42:14

Paolo O Last Chance, great birds there.

2016-03-23-17:33:42

jon f Just along the block to Oxford Circus there was "Beat City" and "The 100 Club".

2016-03-23-20:08:01

David Williams hi the snap taken at tot ct road showing the entrance to what was the last chance saloon really took me back , i was a regular at the "chance" from late 64 thru 65 i used to give out cards to passers-by for free admission , knew the manager and mick the guy that stamped your hand as you went in , later on i frequented wardour mews and the seedy little club/coffee bars down there, the limbo, the take five , round the corner on the corner of berwick and d'arblay st was the freight train and i recall a place opposite called the coffeepot always full of tranvestites , koko's was along there too , st anne's court and the blue gardenia , i remember the "student prince" but i cant recall its exact location ? went to the scene, la discotheque , flamingo , never ventured up stairs to the whisky a gogo ? was it a french club ? the coffee-ann, le macabre, even ventured into the 2'is once or twice , love chatting about the old days "up west"

2017-02-27-23:15:53

Bear Street	Bear Street 1936 - Sunshine Milk Bar
Berwick Street	18 Berwick Street
37 Berwick Street 1972 - corner Walkers Court - The Queens Hot Pants Galore	Walkers Court 1972
37 Berwick Street 1972	37 Berwick Street 1972 March - Queens striptease revue
8 Darblay Street 1957 - Sam Widges	66 Berwick Street 1929 - Camisa Adrian this is the original stoer 2015-11-22-17:42:48
Brewer Street	18 Brewer Street - Lina Stores b
18 Brewer Street - Lina Stores	127-131 Charing Cross Road 1964 - 1897
Denman Street	5-7 Denman Street 1958 - Casino de Paris Strip club Ray Jackson and Eric Lindsay, founders
5-7 Denman Street 1961 - Casino de Paris Strip club	5-7 Denman Street 1963 - Casino de Paris Strip club
5-7 Denman Street 1963 - Casino de Paris Strip club backstage	5-7 Denman Street 1963 - Casino de Paris Strip club
17-19 Great Windmill Street 1944 February - Girl waiting outside the stagedoor of Windmill Theatre for a friend	11 Macclesfield Street 1947 - De Hem's restaurant
New Compton Street	New Compton Street 1930 - Gennaro's
New Compton Street 1939 - Gennaro's	New Compton Street 1943 - Bouillabaisse Club
New Compton Street 1943 17th July - Bouillabaisse Club	Oxford Street
1-7 Oxford Street 1948	1-7 Oxford Street 1973 jon friend Anyone remember "The Last Chance Saloon " dance club. The door was next to the entrance to the tube station. Freddie Mills was shot in his car in the alley behind the station . Right across the street was the former Tottenham Court Road Lyons Corner House. This whole corner of Oxford St & Charing Cross Road is now being rebuilt as part of the Cross Link Rail network 2013-01-24-20:19:29 Adrian Certainly remember the Lyon's tea rooms - we used to go to the Corner House on Leicester Square as a birthday treat! 2013-01-25-12:15:29 Jon Friend Yes Lyons had lots of rooms, The Brasserie, The Carvery,The Grill and Cheese. Te Bacon & Egg. Other Corner Houses were at Marble Arch, Coventry Street and The Strand. All real treats for kids when money was tighter for Mums & Dads than now 2013-07-09-22:17:06 jon f The new Crossrail & Tube station opened Dec 2015, All very shiney & new. 2015-12-05-21:42:14 Paolo O Last Chance, great birds there. 2016-03-23-17:33:42 jon f Just along the block to Oxford Circus there was "Beat City" and "The 100 Club". 2016-03-23-20:08:01 David Williams hi the snap taken at tot ct road showing the entrance to what was the last chance saloon really took me back , i was a regular at the "chance" from late 64 thru 65 i used to give out cards to passers-by for free admission , knew the manager and mick the guy that stamped your hand as you went in , later on i frequented wardour mews and the seedy little club/coffee bars down there, the limbo, the take five , round the corner on the corner of berwick and d'arblay st was the freight train and i recall a place opposite called the coffeepot always full of tranvestites , koko's was along there too , st anne's court and the blue gardenia , i remember the "student prince" but i cant recall its exact location ? went to the scene, la discotheque , flamingo , never ventured up stairs to the whisky a gogo ? was it a french club ? the coffee-ann, le macabre, even ventured into the 2'is once or twice , love chatting about the old days "up west" 2017-02-27-23:15:53
173 Oxford Street 1930's - The Pantheon	376 Oxford Street 1944 May
Lyric theatre Shaftesbury Avenue 1954 September	Soho Square
Soho Square 1700 ©British History Online	Soho Square 1937
Soho Square 1955 - Waiters' race	St Giles Circus 1957
Tottenham Court Road	151 Tottenham Court Road 1944 - Paramount and Odeon theatre
151 Tottenham Court Road 1944 Paramount Dance Hall Girl dancing the Jitterbug	151 Tottenham Court Road 1944 Februrary 21 Paramount Dance Hall Couples dancing the Jitterbug
Wardour Street	54 Wardour Street 1967 February - corner Old Compton Street
76-88 Wardour Street 1964 - 1906-8	201-203 Wardour Street 1914
000 Whitehall	14 Whitehall 1944 February 1 - Whitehall Theatre Stripper Phyllis Dixey performing on stage ©David E. Scherman
14 Whitehall 1944 February 1- Whitehall Theater Stripper Phyllis Dixey letting down the top of her dress and standing nude on stage ©David E. Scherman	Mystery
Soho Fruit Stores 1940's	Journaux-Etrangers