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unusual facts about Shaftesbury Avenue


Sadakazu Uyenishi

Soon after his arrival in London, Uyenishi joined fellow expatriate Japanese wrestler Yukio Tani on the teaching faculty of Barton-Wright's Bartitsu Club in Shaftesbury Avenue.


Binkie Beaumont

His company, H. M. Tennent, which he co-founded in 1936, was based at the old Globe Theatre (now the Gielgud Theatre) in Shaftesbury Avenue, London.

Metropolitan Board of Works

The essence of the scandal arose from the purchase by the MBW of the old Pavilion music hall in Piccadilly Circus in 1879, when the site was thought necessary for the construction of Shaftesbury Avenue.


see also

BoyBand the Musical

The show premiered at Derby Playhouse in 1999, transferring to London's West End later that year where it ran at the Gielgud Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue.

Cambridge Circus

Cambridge Circus, London, the junction of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road in London

Slimelight

The name comes from the fact that for a brief period in the summer of 1987 the club was held in a disused church on High Holborn, and "The Slimelight" is a parody of The Limelight, another famous club of that era which was also located in a church in London's Shaftesbury Avenue.