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I’ll start off this selection of 10 archive photos from 2002 with this view of the Stallion sex shop in Soho – from the time when Soho was dark, sleazy and exciting.<\/p>\n
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The long lost On The Beat record store in Hanway Street<\/a>, around the back of Oxford Street, W1<\/p>\n See my photo feature here from Nov 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n Banksy works under the arches of London Bridge railway bridge.<\/p>\n Drenched walkers head over the Millennium Bridge (aka the Wobbly Bridge<\/a>) towards the north bank of the Thames and St Pauls cathedral.<\/p>\n The former entrance to the closed Strand\/Aldwych tube station was being used by a photo machine in 2002.<\/p>\n I took a tour of the disused station in June 2014 – see the photos here.<\/a><\/p>\n No Bills, no sir.<\/p>\n Foyles bookshop neon signs.<\/p>\n Soho espresso bar.<\/p>\n Sandwich bar, Whitfield Street.<\/p>\n I’ll start off this selection of 10 archive photos from 2002 with this view of the Stallion sex shop in Soho – from the time when Soho was dark, sleazy … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58683,"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":[1765,194,17,193],"tags":[60,10,2061,18,190,809],"class_list":["post-58671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-history","tag-london","tag-london-history","tag-photography","tag-soho","tag-street-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/london-soho-pics-jan-2002-08-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-fgj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58671","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=58671"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58819,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58671\/revisions\/58819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/london-soho-pics-jan-2002-02.jpg\")
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