Wardour Street
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Wardour Street in a street located in London's Soho, running from Leicester Square, passing through Chinatown, across Shaftesbury Avenue, to Oxford Street.
It was the centre of the old British film industry, and is still the home of much of the current film industry.
In the late 19th century Wardour Street was known for slightly shoddy furniture stores. Wardour Street prose implies strained use of near-obsolete words for effect (e.g. anent). It refers to concentration at one time of antique shops in the area.
The street was the site of the Marquee Club from 1964 to 1988 and, probably for that reason, is mentioned in the title of a song by The Jam, "A-Bomb in Wardour Street".
The well-known Chinese restaurant Wong Kei is located along this street.