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The basement of No.81 was home from July 1934 to the Caravan Club that advertised itself as "London's Greatest Bohemian Rendezvous said to be the most unconventional spot in town" which was code for being gay-friendly. The club helpfully promised "All night gaiety". It was run by
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states that the street was built in 1846 when Belton Street was widened and extended northwards to Broad Street (now in High Holborn). The street is believed to have been named after the Reverend James Endell Tyler, rector of
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The club came to the attention of the police almost straight away and in August local residents complained "It's absolutely a sink of iniquity." The club was raided on 25 August, with men arrested. Their trial at
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in 1859, and is included, together with the attached cast-iron railings, on the National Heritage register. The crow-step gable, facing Betterton Street, has a significant contemporary artwork by painter
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The Hospital Club opened in 2003 at No.24 to serve the members of London's media and creative industries. It was on the site of the former St Paul's Hospital. It was used by the rock band
528: 337:, known as "Iron Foot Jack" on account of the metal leg brace he wore, and was frequented by both gay men and lesbian women. It was financed by small-time criminal Billy Reynolds. 84:. The street is an avenue with very tall, mature plane trees, widely spaced; it now equals the B401 (which had included Bow and Wellington Streets) and is one-way, southbound. 415:
The early history of Piccadilly Leicester Square Soho & their neighbourhood based on a plan drawn in 1585 and published by the London Topographical Society in 1925
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writes that the southern end of the street from Castle Street to Short's Gardens was originally known as Old Belton Street, the northern end from Short's Gardens to
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During the first world war a military hospital operated from No.36, staffed entirely by women. The hospital was opened in 1915 by suffragists
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and Shelton Street. Betterton Street intersects between these on the eastern side. The northern end of the street is in the
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hospital took over the premises at No.24 after the British Lying-In Hospital closed; St Paul's Hospital closed in 1992.
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The land on which the southern part of Endell Street is built was originally owned by William Short, who leased it to
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is supposed to have bathed in the waters from a medical spring there at a site known as Queen Anne's Bath.
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structure, cited as an early example of the style, was designed as a studio for the stained-glass firm
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The nineteenth-century Latchfords Timber Yard and attached timber sheds at No.61 are Grade II listed.
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Harrison, Martin (1982). "Can We Expect a Stained Glass Revival?". In Margetts, Martina (ed.).
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and treated 24,000 patients and carried out over 7,000 operations. It closed in 1919.
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The modern Endell Street was created according to the reforming plans of architect
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Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-War Britain 1945–71
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Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918–1957
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public house at No.31, constructed 1848–49, is a Grade II listed building.
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Powell, Kenneth (1994). "Architectural Artist". In Hodges, Nicola (ed.).
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was relocated to a purpose-built building on Endell Street in 1849.
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London past and present: Its history, associations, and traditions
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be added to the Endell Street site, now known as The Sail Loft.
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In 2020, the club closed permanently due to the effects of the
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Endell Street, London: Only All-Female Run Military Hospital.
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St Paul’s Hospital for Skin and Genito-Urinary Diseases.
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The Jewell and Withers Building at 22 Endell Street is a
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Paytress, Mark (1 January 2008). "Chasing Rainbows".
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The Swiss Protestant Church at No.79 was designed by
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Index


London's West End
High Holborn
Long Acre
Bow Street
Covent Garden
Cross Keys, Covent Garden

Shorts Gardens
London Borough of Camden
City of Westminster
Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox
Belton House
Henry Wheatley
St Giles
Queen Anne
James Pennethorne
Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
St Giles in the Fields
British Lying-In Hospital

Brian Clarke
listed buildings
Grade II listed building
Gothic Revival
Lavers and Barraud
Brian Clarke
Crafts Council
Cross Keys
George Vulliamy

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