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Comptons of Soho

The pub in the middle of Old Compton Street, and the one that helped make the street what it is.

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Comptons took a Victorian corner pub where Old Compton Street meets Wardour Street and reopened it as a gay bar in 1986, at a point when doing that openly on a main Soho street was a decision rather than a given. It is two floors: a wide ground-floor bar with its windows onto the pavement, which was rather the point, and a quieter room above it. The crowd is older and mixed, there is no door policy to speak of, and it is the least self-conscious room on the street.

Where
51-53 Old Compton Street, Soho, W1D 6HN
Nearest station
Tottenham Court Road · 4 min walk

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