Wardour Mews, W1F
Soho
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Wardour Mews is a cul-de-sac off of Portland Street.

Like its namesake street, it was built by Edward Wardour from 1676 onwards.

In the 1890s, the mews was identified by Booth as an area of mixed fairly comfortable and ordinary earnings to poorer households.

When the alternative 1970s magazine IT was based in the mews, it was both affectionately and worryingly known as Murder Alley.

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