Sohoite

Grew up in Covent Garden, so sad beautiful Soho is disappearing. Love old photos of Soho and Covent Garden, Jazz R&B & Kindness

[Sohoite @sohoite]

🎉 The 50th Soho Village Fête is today — 1970s theme 🕺🪩 and proper community spirit.

It’s bringing together residents from #Soho, #CoventGarden, #Bloomsbury, #Fitzrovia, #Camden & #Holborn 🏘️

We’re also here to support @SohoSociety, who lost £27k trying to stop something that should never have happened.

A distillery was approved in a beautiful Georgian building — one that never even had planning permission to be a gym, nor a distillery 😱

The Planning Inspector ruled the use was unlawful, noting it had a shared residential staircase and garden.

@SohoSociety weren’t just defending planning policy —
they were standing up for residents and their homes.

And maybe — just maybe — the people in that house will get their home and garden back.

If you care about living in Soho:
👉 support the fête
👉 join the Society
👉 stand up for the people behind the front doors

📸 Come down, dress up, and show your support!

@CityWestminster @leader_wcc
@gbarraclough @rbush @tarekshalaby
@WestminsterXtra @tomfoot1
@CllrPLilley @VoteTimBarnes @PaulEFishr
#DebbieJackson
@SohoGeorge

#SohoFête
#ProtectSoho
#PlanningMatters
#Listed
#Heritage
#Georgian
#Soho #CoventGarden #Bloomsbury #Fitzrovia #Camden #Holborn

#ChangeOfUse
#ClassC3
#ClassD2
#ClassE
#SuiGeneris
#MaterialChangeOfUse
#UseClasses
#PlanningEnforcement
#ListedBuildingConsent
#ProtectHomes

[The Soho Society @sohosocietyw1]

50-50-50!
🥳Save the date! 50th Soho Fete!🕺🏻
🎉Sunday 20th July 12-6pm💃🏻

St Anne’s Gardens, Wardour Street Soho

Entry free! Priority Soho Soc Members
🐌Back to the 70’s to celebrate so pull out those flares and polish up your platforms! Prize for best-dressed!🕺🏻#SohoLondon

[Sohoite @sohoite]

@SohoGeorge Reservoir Dawgs

[Sohoite @sohoite]

@SohoGeorge Fab photo

[Sohoite @sohoite]

@CrimeLdn @MetCC @metpoliceuk
Security out of control, this boy is 15.

[Sohoite @sohoite]

@SohoGeorge @carolatte44 @LEscargotSoho Lovely

[Sohoite @sohoite]

https://t.co/p7xn74jmUG

Is this Regent Street?
#Fire #Bus @BBCLondonNews

[Sohoite @sohoite]

@SohoGeorge Lying toad, you are flogging Jam
Now ! X

[Sohoite @sohoite]

@SohoGeorge @TheMuseumOfSoho Divine Photo 😍

[Sohoite @sohoite]

@SohoGeorge What you like ? #SquareGeorge

[Sohoite @sohoite]

https://t.co/N51sp5TGzu

#Square #SquareGeorge

Never saw you as Square George

😂
X
@SohoGeorge
@SquareGeorge
#BeYourself 🥂
#LivedExperience
#Soho

[Sohoite @sohoite]

@SohoGeorge Should you wish to start behaving yourself George
The Twitter tag @SquareGeorge
Appears to be available
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🤣

[Sohoite @sohoite]

https://t.co/DGh2wkx7AX

I remember you saying you didn’t really want to drink anymore as you got older — you didn’t want to miss anything. I get that.
I love a G&T myself (must have ice).
Over the years, I always hoped Elizabeth had been secretly saving all the child benefit she got for me — to buy me a car (don’t drive) or a holiday or something.
She said: “Don’t be silly — that’s my gin money.”
#MothersRuin #Gordons #ItsGotToBeGordons

[Sohoite @sohoite]

17 years ago. Just a normal evening with friends — talking nonsense, talking sense. Laughing, overthinking, surviving. Apparently that’s middle class? Still talk like this now. Hilarious. And kind of poignant. 🎥 https://t.co/4UF2yLvgFY #SohoHousing #SohoLife #RealConversation

[Sohoite @sohoite]

@SohoGeorge Hilarious isn’t it,
It reminded me of an evening at my family home in Long Acre but far more non-PC & bottle of Gordons on the table.

[George Skeggs Robert Henry @SohoGeorge]

@sohoite 💥💥👍

[Sohoite @sohoite]

@SohoGeorge @sohosocietyw1 Lovely vibe today at the 50th anniversary of the #sohofete

#Community 🤗

#SweetCaroline
@sohosocietyw1 @SohoGeorge

[Sohoite @sohoite]

@SohoGeorge @carolatte44 @sohosocietyw1 You love it! Don’t lie

[Sohoite @sohoite]

@SohoGeorge Hi @sohogeorge
My Godmama lives nearby and says that GP is brilliant. Shame I’m not in the catchment area 😅

Sorry we didn’t get to chat properly at the Soho Fête
- I think you were too busy signing autographs 🤣

[Sohoite @sohoite]

@SohoGeorge Aw!

[Sohoite @sohoite]

@LFBWestminster Congrats, as always! And very noble of you not to show the police huffing and puffing this time. We all remember that footage…

[Sohoite @sohoite]

Totally agree re: the bike rack — but I’m actually more worried about the constant queues outside your ice cream shop. Have you managed to get them to install any belt barriers yet? Just something to stop people blocking the pavement.

Also, the legacy IT system at Westminster is a mess. #ReportIT is clunky, buggy, and now when you report something, it just vanishes into the abyss. No text, no email, nothing.

A City Inspector told me yesterday:
“Oh yeah, they stopped that.”

I’ve worked in software product development for years — this is legacy garbage.
@CllrPLilley @PaulEFishr @leader_wcc

[Sohoite @sohoite]

🎉 The 50th Soho Village Fête is today — 1970s theme 🕺🪩 and proper community spirit, bringing together #Soho, #CoventGarden, #Bloomsbury, #Fitzrovia, #Camden & #Holborn.

A distillery was approved in a beautiful Georgian building — no planning to be a gym, nor a distillery 😱

We’re also here to support @SohoSociety, who lost £27k trying to stop something that should never have happened.

The Planning Inspector ruled the use was unlawful, noting it had a shared residential staircase and garden.

@SohoSociety weren’t just defending planning policy —
they were standing up for residents and their homes.

And maybe — just maybe — the people in that house will get their home and garden back.

If you care about living in Soho:
👉 support the fête
👉 join the Society
👉 stand up for the people behind the front doors

📸 Come down, dress up, and show your support!

@CityWestminster @leader_wcc
@gbarraclough @rbush @tarekshalaby
@WestminsterExtra @tomfoot1
@CllrPLilley @VoteTimBarnes @PaulEFishr
#DebbieJackson #SohoGeorge

#SohoFête
#ProtectSoho
#PlanningMatters
#Listed
#Heritage
#Georgian
#ChangeOfUse
#ClassC3
#ClassD2
#ClassE
#SuiGeneris
#MaterialChangeOfUse
#UseClasses
#PlanningEnforcement
#ListedBuildingConsent
#ProtectHomes
#LeslieHardcastle
#LesliesLegacy
#LeslieHardcastleRIP

[The Soho Society @sohosocietyw1]

50-50-50!
🥳Save the date! 50th Soho Fete!🕺🏻
🎉Sunday 20th July 12-6pm💃🏻

St Anne’s Gardens, Wardour Street Soho

Entry free! Priority Soho Soc Members
🐌Back to the 70’s to celebrate so pull out those flares and polish up your platforms! Prize for best-dressed!🕺🏻#SohoLondon