{"id":18206,"date":"2017-12-18T12:59:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T12:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=18206"},"modified":"2017-12-18T12:59:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T12:59:44","slug":"christmas-rain-soho-lights-reflected-in-the-rainy-pavements-of-london-dec-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/christmas-rain-soho-lights-reflected-in-the-rainy-pavements-of-london-dec-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas rain &#8211; Soho lights reflected in the rainy pavements of London, Dec 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/soho-rain-xmas-01.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas rain - Soho lights reflected in the pavements, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another set of photos taken around Soho this weekend, showing the rainy streets of the capital a week before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/soho-rain-xmas-02.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas rain - Soho lights reflected in the pavements, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The magnificent former gas lanterns of the Cock Tavern on Margaret Street,\u00a0a Victorian pub with a wonderfully ornate interior. A long, narrow pub, it serves the usual range of affordable Samuel Smith beers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/soho-rain-xmas-03.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas rain - Soho lights reflected in the pavements, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rain reflected off the sett paving on Broadwick Street.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/soho-rain-xmas-04.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas rain - Soho lights reflected in the pavements, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/soho-rain-xmas-05.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas rain - Soho lights reflected in the pavements, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/soho-rain-xmas-06.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas rain - Soho lights reflected in the pavements, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Watners boozer, the Blue Posts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/soho-rain-xmas-07.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas rain - Soho lights reflected in the pavements, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Berwick Street.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/soho-rain-xmas-08.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas rain - Soho lights reflected in the pavements, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/soho-rain-xmas-09.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas rain - Soho lights reflected in the pavements, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Market stall packs down in Berwick Street.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/soho-rain-xmas-10.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas rain - Soho lights reflected in the pavements, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Police car and pedestrian reflections.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/soho-rain-xmas-11.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas rain - Soho lights reflected in the pavements, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tourists taking a ride.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/soho-rain-xmas-12.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas rain - Soho lights reflected in the pavements, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0distinctive half-timbered gardener&#8217;s hut in Soho Square.<\/p>\n<p>A little known fact is that the Grade II listed mock-Tudor cottage also houses an\u00a0emergency fire escape exit for a WW2 200 sq ft brick and concrete shell\u00a0shelter in its centre. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/bomb-shelter-under-soho-square-could-be-londons-next-top-restaurant-venue-9989241.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8212;<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/soho-rain-xmas-13.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas rain - Soho lights reflected in the pavements, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Soho Square phone box with Centrepoint in the background.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/soho-rain-xmas-14.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas rain - Soho lights reflected in the pavements, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The great fairy light orb of Tottenham Court Road.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/soho-rain-xmas-15.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas rain - Soho lights reflected in the pavements, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Baubles in the rain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/soho-rain-xmas-16.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas rain - Soho lights reflected in the pavements, December 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/central-london-photos-parks-buildings-street-scenes-and-london-life.329057\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chat about London photos on our forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another set of photos taken around Soho this weekend, showing the rainy streets of the capital a week before Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,17,193],"tags":[24,1825,1620,10,1095,1826,1195,190,476,1535],"class_list":["post-18206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-lights","tag-lights","tag-london","tag-mayfair","tag-night-scenes","tag-photos","tag-soho","tag-tottenham-court-road","tag-xmas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/soho-rain-xmas-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-4JE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18208,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18206\/revisions\/18208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}