Dean Street is a street in

Soho SoHo, short for "South of Houston Street, Houston Street", is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Since the 1970s, the neighborhood has been the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, art installations such as The Wall ...

, central London, running from

Oxford Street Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running between Marble Arch and Tottenham Court Road via Oxford Circus. It marks the notional boundary between the areas of Fitzrovia and Marylebone to t ...

south to Shaftesbury Avenue. It crosses

Old Compton Street Old Compton Street is a road that runs east–west through Soho in the West End of London, named after Henry Compton (bishop), Henry Compton who raised funds for St Anne's Church, Soho, St Anne's Church in 1686. The area, particularly this str ...

and is linked to Frith Street by Bateman Street.

Culture

The Soho Theatre presents new plays and stand-up comedy. The Gargoyle Club ran for 27 years in the upper floors at number 69, a site that also housed the nightclub Billy's in its cellars during the late 1970s, when it was associated with the

New Romanticism New Romantic was an underground subculture movement that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The movement emerged from the nightclub scene in London and Birmingham at venues such as Billy's and The Blitz. The New Romantic mo ...

movement.

Fire

On 10 July 2009 a fire broke out on Dean Street. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries but nobody else was hurt. The building that caught fire was gutted.

Intersections

From north to south: *

– terminates * Carlisle Street * St Anne's Court * Richmond Buildings (leading to Richmond Mews) * Chapone Place * Bateman Street * Meard Street * Bourchier Street *

* Romilly Street * Shaftesbury Avenue – terminates

References

External links

LondonTown.com information

at the junction with

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