Author’s new work explores changing face of Soho
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AN ICONIC London theatre venue is celebrated in Great Oxendon author Mike Hutton’s latest book.
The Story of Soho: The Windmill Years 1932 to 1964 tells the story of 32 years of change in the famous London district.
It covers everything from the theatre to the war, austerity, strip clubs, glamour models and rock ‘n’ roll.
The Windmill Theatre opened in 1932 and, after entertaining audiences through thirty-two years of dramatic change in Soho, finally closed its doors in 1964.
In this book, the Windmill forms the backdrop against which former Londoner Mr Hutton explores all the diversity taking place in the surrounding streets of this unique district during a period of social and moral change.
Mr Hutton, whose previous book, Twenties London, was published in 2011, said: “Soho has always been a source of fascination. A district quite unlike any other in London, where glamour meets squalor and then often merges.
“It is different, never mirroring the changes of its more fashionable neighbours. It seduces and destroys in equal measures.”
The book is available now from Amazon, priced £13
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