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Great Windmill Street
Great Windmill Street looking towards Shaftesbury Avenue
Length590 ft (180 m)
Postal codeW1
Nearest Tube stationLondon Underground Piccadilly Circus
Coordinates51°30′40″N 0°08′03″W / 51.5112°N 0.1343°W / 51.5112; -0.1343
south endA4 road Coventry Street
Major
junctions
A401
Shaftesbury Avenue
north endBrewer Street

Great Windmill Street is a thoroughfare running north–south in Soho, London, crossed by Shaftesbury Avenue. The street has had a long association with music and entertainment, most notably the Windmill Theatre, and is now home to the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum and the Trocadero shopping centre.

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Emmanuelle in Soho

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Karl Marx

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Workers' Educational Society. The Society held their meetings in Great Windmill Street, Soho, central London's entertainment district. This organisation...

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Mary Millington

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Jack Solomons

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base of operations was his gymnasium located at 41 Great Windmill Street in Soho. His first great success came when he put together a match between Jack...

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