Seventy Years in a Colourful Trade
Andrew O’Hagan: The Soho Alphabet, 16 July 2020
Tales from the Colony Room: Soho’s Lost Bohemia
by Darren Coffield.
Unbound, 364 pp., £25, April 2020,978 1 78352 816 5 Show More
by Darren Coffield.
Unbound, 364 pp., £25, April 2020,
“... rear, a speakeasy with overpriced drinks and mad people, open all hours. There was another one in Archer Street and one in Wardour Street and one further along in Beak Street. These were rooms with tacky carpets and ruined people for whom the morning was a long way down. I guess I could have gone home, but something in me wanted to stay, and so I did. When ... ”