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'The Carnaby Street Boutique Map' is just one of several Sixties City articles and pages that examine the birthplace of the 'Swinging Sixties' in London
The map is a stylised representation of the Carnaby Street area and is not intended to show the precise relative positioning or sizing of premises.

Click on the highlighted links for available images Updated 2nd March 2025

The street takes its name from Karnaby House, a large building on the east side of the street, erected in 1683 by Richard Tyler. It is not known why the house was so named. The street was probably laid out in 1685 or 1686 and first appears in the ratebooks in 1687 recorded as the site of a series of 'pest' (plague) houses. It was almost completely built up by 1690 with small houses, though there were also a number of stables and a riding-house built on the site of the present Pugh's Place. Early inhabitants included the Huguenots and more than one house in the street was noted in the ratebooks as being 'filled with French Protestants', who appear to have lived there rate-free. later, from 1700 to about 1721, one of the houses in the street was occupied by a girls' charity school which later moved to Boyle Street and is now the Burlington School, Shepherd's Bush.

All these first houses in Carnaby Street (described by Strype in 1720 as 'ordinary') were rebuilt in the 1720's as part of the redevelopment of the Lowndes property which followed the termination of the original building lease to Tyler and the grant of the freehold reversion of all the eastern moiety of Six Acre Close to William Lowndes in March 1722/3. It was at this time that Karnaby House was demolished. By the nineteenth century the houses were nearly all in commercial occupation. A considerable amount of rebuilding took place in 1820–25, after the closure of Carnaby Market, when most of the property which Lord Craven had bought on the east side of the street between Ganton Street and Foubert's Place, was rebuilt by or under the supervision of Thomas Finden.

The south end of the street has now been rebuilt with offices and warehouses in nondescript styles, and the first building of character is on the east side, in the station of the former St. James and Pall Mall Electric Light Company. The southernmost part of this building is the earliest, a structure of yellow brick with red dressings, designed in a strange mixture of Victorian Gothic with Baroque styles. To the north of Ganton Street on the east side are two much altered houses, 22 and 23, of early to mid eighteenth-century date, which were evidently not rebuilt after the closure of Carnaby Market; they are both four storeys high and two and three windows wide respectively.
The rest of the east side of the street is occupied by two groups of buildings erected as part of the redevelopment of the market in the 1820's. On the west side there are a number of much altered Georgian buildings. The street was later home to an abbatoir and while tailors had moved in during the late 19th century, it wasn’t until the middle of the 20th century that it began to attract a reputation for fashion, becoming the epicentre of Swinging London during the 1960s.

Carnaby Street view      1792 Map     Early 60s street view

1 John Stephen's Village Store c.1968           2 Not known         3 John Stephen Girls Shop

4 Topper shoes previously Warburton & Son c.1956

5 John Stephen HIS c.1957 from Beak Street. Previously Warburton & Son c.1956

6 Edwin Crook & Co. c.1957   5 and 6 were later The Village Store boutique (John Stephen) c.1967

7 Early occupant not known: 7 & 9 were later Henry Moss c.1966 then Pussy Galore (Henry Moss) 1969. The shop became Sweet Fanny Adams in the early 70s

8 John Stephen Custom Tailoring boutique (John Stephen)

9 Topper shoes. One of two Topper outlets on Carnaby Street. Open Monday - Saturday 9am - 6pm with late night shopping until 7pm on Thursday and Friday, No.9 had a 'beautifully cool interior in weird purply shades' and catered for girls.

10 Merc (Javid Alavi) 1967 (previously a small shop in Ganton Street)

10 - 19 At the start of the Sixties this entire block (listed as No.19) was the site of the Electricity building (originally the Saint James' and Pall Mall Electric Lighting Company) extending to Marshall Street. Read More    Disused building entrance No.19 in 1967   From 1827 - 1892 there was a National School on part of this site. Number 13 was previously The Ship public house c.1784-1884) Street View  View2

14 Listed as Carnaby House on 1967 Advert

20 - 21 Ravel shoes (Raoul Chausseurs of Oxford Street) later Mary Quant Colour Shop c.1980

22 Cranks Salad Table Opened 21st June 1961. It was founded and owned by David and Kay Canter and Daphne Swann, and its flagship restaurant was later (1967-2001) at Marshall Street. London's first truly vegetarian restaurant. later Kleptomania boutique c.1967 (Tommy Roberts and Charlie Simpson)

23 Donis (Andrew Spyropoulos) c.1957. Donis Under 5 boutique on first floor. 23 also housed a company called Kepkold.

24 Take 6 (Sidney Brent, who owned 14 branches in London). This was originally the site of The Castle public house c.1824-1895  The boutique had live bands playing during the lunch hour to attract more customers.
Later Cranks Shop (provisions store) 1967 Advert

25 Mates boutique (Irvine Sellar) An establishment called Carnaby Signs occupied the 1st floor. By 1969 Irvine Sellar owned 24 boutiques. Previously a shop Jim's

25A Yvon boutique c.1968 Le Papillon c.1968?

26 Ranjit Travels travel agents later Carnaby Girl (Irvine Sellars) c.1968

27 Irvine Sellars boutique - originally a greengrocers

28 Tom Cat boutique c.1966 (Irvine Sellars) later Fancy That and Carnaby Capers souvenir shop c.1971

28A Lady Jane's Birdcage boutique (Harry Fox) previously a boutique called Hide and a Tobacco Kiosk appended to number 28.

29 Lady Jane boutique (Harry Fox and Henry Moss) April 1966 - the first boutique actually in the street to specialise in ladies' fashion. Models were instructed to dress and undress in the windows for the first three days of trading. Previously the site of a local dairy

30 Como Snacks cafe (George Grech) later Sir Harry boutique (Harry Fox) c.1972

31 Oscar's Coffee Shop (Oscar Bucchioni) c.1955 later became Universal Commissions Ltd betting shop. (2nd picture) c.1962 (Emile Gatta and Oscar Bucchioni) later sold to Aristos (Anella)
(Aristos and Achilleas Constantinou) c.1971

32 Rene florists (date?) C.G.Honeywill's leather manufacturers c.1968

33 - 34 John Stephen department store and Scottish Highland Shop and Scotch & Soda Bar (date?).
It was transformed from a fitting house during shopping hours to a drinking lounge in the evening. Previously Tollas a jewellery and fancy goods warehouse

35 Gear boutique (Tom Salter) 1964 2nd picture  previously a restaurant c.1944

36 - 37 Morrell's hardware and electrical store. Between 37 and 38, prior to reconstruction, was an entrance to 'Pugh's Place', occupied by G.Stannard & Sons, box and packing case makers c.1944

38 - 38A Male W.1. boutique (John Stephen) c.1965 1962 Prior to Male W1 Building reconstruction

39 Paul's Male Boutique (Nathan and Susie Spiegel, who also owned the Mister Carnaby boutique)

40 Detroit Dry Cleanery ('Famous Spencer dry cleaning process')

41 His Clothes / Her Clothes / His'n'Hers boutiques (John Stephen) 41 Carnaby

42 Carnaby Cafe Locally known as Fred's. Previously a Different Cafe under another name or different signage - Player's? later Lady Jane Again! (for her) c.1969 and The Fox's Lair (for him) (sign saying his'n'hers) c.1972 boutiques (Harry Fox). Acquired by Irvine Sellars some time after new paving.

43 Lord John boutique (Warren & David Gold) February 13th 1964 - The iconic murals were painted in1967. Previously The Coach and Horses public house c.1787 - 1965

44 Ravel shoes (Raoul Chausseurs of Oxford Street). Previously The Bull's Head p.h. c.1784-1910
Above: MB Langdon Insuance and Nelson School of English c.1976

45 Topper / Shoes by Topper shoe shop (Monty Stewart and Steve Topper). One of two outlets on Carnaby Street. It kept the same opening hours as No.9 but catered for men only, with the range costing from three pounds to ten guineas. The first floor was used by Aristos (Achilleas and Aristos Constantinou) c.1965

46 Inderwick's    Street View   The pipe & tobacco specialist was founded in 1797 by John Inderwick. The original shop located on Wardour Street was one of the earliest tobacconists in London. Although appearing slightly out of place during the Carnaby fashion period, they resisted several offers on their lease. Throughout this period their business was enhanced rather than threatened as curious shoppers ventured in to buy their specialist tobacco blends, cigarettes and the long clay Churchwardens, Corncobs and Meerschaum pipes which they had been selling for 170 years. Above Inderwicks was the very first Aristos boutique, occupying two rooms on the first floor, a small shop area in the front and a workroom in the back where Constantinou Aristos ran up garments for girls. The son of a master tailor, he had graduated from the London College of Fashion in 1965 and with the profits from this boutique opened up a second shop named Blooshp at 45 Newburgh Street where he was joined by his younger brother Achillea. A third shop was opened in Carnaby Street c.1971 and another in Marlborough Court

46 - 46A Domino Male and Trecamp boutiques (John Stephen) c.1965 later Pop boutique c.1968
1965 News article on the naming of 'Trecamp'

47 Paul's Male Boutique (Nathan and Susie Spiegel, who also owned the Mister Carnaby boutique) c.1959. Opened a 2nd Carnaby branch late 60s

47A John Stephen Custom Built Clothes For Men boutique c.1964 The Mod Male boutique
(John Stephen). later Adam W.1. boutique (Stanley Adams) and Sweet Fanny Adams swimwear
c.1968 (Henry Moss)

48 Otis Elevator Company Ltd (c.1966)

49 to 51 was collectively Stanley House with the following ground floor occupants:

49 Carna B Hive boutique and entrance to a basement club: The Roaring Twenties club (Count Suckle)

50 - 51 Man's Shop boutique (John Stephen) c.1959 later JS Trouser Bar boutique (John Stephen)

52 Kids In Gear children's boutique (Tom Salter) c.1967    Carnaby Street boutique (date?). Previously The Welsh Harp public house c.1838-1938)

52 - 55 John Stephen Teen Store c.1965 also housing His'n'Her Clothes and Their Records (John Stephen). The upper floors of Stephen House housed the John Stephen offices, the Henry Moss shirt design offices, the Don Arden music management offices Galaxy Entertainments and the basement was a coffee shop.  Stephen House 1966 picture

53 - 54 were previously Joseph Stegmaier's Hungarian Cafe and Restaurant

56 Not known    57 The Drug Store boutique (John Stephen Teen Store)

(previously Cross Street) Corner view

Number unknown: Merc boutique (Javid Alavi) c.1966

4   Foale & Tuffin boutique c.1963 - the 1st boutique exclusively for women. The top 2 floors of the
premises were occupied by James Wedge (c.1962) - a design and salon boutique for hats

6   Carnaby Cavern tailors and boutique (Danny Benjamin) c.1964 - See the separate page with reminiscences and stories about the Carnaby Cavern as told by owner Danny Benjamin

10 Cranks No.2 health foods c.1966. 10 and 12 Ganton Street formed a three-storey block with 17 - 17A Newburgh Street

12 Hat Gear hat boutique for men and girls c.1967    14 Mister Carnaby boutique (?)

15 Metal Crafts     17 Dorian boutique?
Interestingly there appears to be an entrance to the Underground next to Dorian in this image but I can find no record of its existence!

26 Palisades pop art gear (Pauline Fordham / Clive Goodwin / Michael White) c.1965

(was West Street)

Newburgh Street view

5   Vince Man's Shop boutique (Bill Green) later Nina Breddal jewellery c.1967

6   Grec no information   8 Unknown boutique      9 .....doir (?)

13 Aristos (Blooshp) later Anella boutique (Aristos and Achilleas Constantinou) c.1966

14 Soho Fare cafe c.1967    15 Vince Man's Shop boutique (Bill Green) c.1954   Advert

16 - 17 White Horse public house c.1718 (listed as 16 West Row in 1839 and 16 West Street in 1921).
It was rebuilt 1939. Number 17 is listed as Cranks (wholemeal bakery and juicery) in the 1968 London directory

45 Blooshp boutique (Constantinou and Achillea Aristos). Renamed Ariella in 1971

Unknown numbers: Golden Chance turf accountants c.1968 The Beak Club c.1968
A Gents Hairdressers c.1963

A large oblong area surrounded by galleried buildings which appears on a 1792 map as a 'Repository for Carriages', replacing the previous 'Nailer's Yard'. Out of hours drinking club Tatty Bogle opened at
11 Kingly Court in 1917. Rina Rottondo: " 'Round here, when I started work, it was all dress making. It was either catering or the rag trade. I mean, my mum and dad and my brother went into catering, but my sister and I, we went into dress making. Kingly Court, just off Beak Street, they were all little factories, used to be like all little rag trade places"

4 The Pinstripe Club / The Kingly Club

1 & 2 Foale & Tuffin boutique c.1963 later Button Queen (Toni Frith) c.1967. Devon's Haute Coiffure c.1969 later The Face boutique

3 Sounds Ahead record shop opened by Derek Treharne c.1973 later Deal Real record shop c.2002

Beak Street first appears by this name in the rate books for 1689. The central part of the street, east of King Street on the north side and Warwick Street on the south, as far as Bridle Lane, formed part of Gelding Close and was called Silver Street (possibly derived from Golden Square which was itself derived from Gelding Close) until 1883 when all three sections became known as Beak Street. The eastern end of the street beyond Bridle Lane was also originally called Silver Street

15 The Grapes public house c.1830-1851, then Cumberland Stores public house 1851-1989
Listed as 27 Silver Street prior to 1883

16 Howard Hardy & Co. Ltd. Upstairs was Murray's Cabaret Club. The club's hostesses included Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice Davies (see Murrays Club website).

17 Barcelona Spanish restaurant c.1968

19 Toilet Saloon c.1968 also John Stephen Offices (see ad)
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Passage to Kingly Court
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21 Lonsdale Sports c.1968 previously the Coach & Horses public house c.1839-1915.
Listed as 24 Silver Street prior to 1883

Granada Television (36 Golden Square)

39 Not Known: The Red Lion public house c.1839-1910. Listed as 17 Silver Street prior to 1883

40 Not Known: The Crown public house c.1809-1921. Listed as 8 Silver Street prior to 1883 and mentioned by Charles Dickens in 'Nicholas Nickleby'

41 Sphinx coffee bar, restaurant and kebab house c.1962. Formerly listed as 16 Silver Street. The Venetian painter Antonio Canaletto lodged here from c.1749 to 1751. Note Sphinx Club next door at 43

49 Old Coffee House public house, formerly the Silver Street Coffee House c.1772. Rebuilt 1894.
Listed as 13 Silver Street prior to 1883

(previously King Street)

1 The Grapes public house c.1830-1851, then Cumberland Stores public house 1851-1989
Listed as 27 Silver Street prior to 1883

9 Bag O'Nails night club run by brothers Rik and John Gunnell

10 Kleptomania boutique (Tommy Roberts and Charlie Simpson) 11 later Valtaro cafe

14 Not Known: The Red Lion public house c.1788

18 Blue Posts public house, licensed in 1728 as the Two Blue Posts. Blue Posts and Soho on You Tube. The present pub was built in 1892 at a cost of £4,000. Also formerly known as King Charles II. Listed as 18 King Street in 1905. There are three 'Blue Post' pubs in Soho alone, plus one in St James and one in Fitzrovia. A sixth on the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Hanway Street closed down in the 1990s. Much further back, a Two Blue Posts pub could be found at 32 Old Bond Street, while an Old Blue Posts famous for its dining room, closed round the corner in Cork Street in 1911. Another was located on Shoe Lane in the City. The 'blue posts' in the name were the boundary-markers of Soho Fields, the sixteenth century royal hunting grounds

29 Adam W.1. boutique (Stanley Adams) c.1965

30 Not known: Formerly Oriental Stores and Tallow Chandlers Arms public house c.1801-1915

34 The Clachan public house c.1750 previously The Bricklayers Arms, renamed in 1887. Rebuilt in 1898. Listed as 34 King Street prior to 1906. It was once owned by the family-run Liberty department store and was originally planned to be used as a warehouse before it was sold off

38 The Green Dragon public house c.1797-1910, demolished for the construction of the Liberty & Co department store

At an unknown number there may have been a cafe called ValTaro

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The 'Y' shape 'extension' of Great Marlborough Street was originally part of Carnaby Street leading to some confusion in numbering / address of some premises at certain times. Underground public toilets were situated here

Liberty & Co department store - main building built in 1924. It was constructed from the timbers of two ships: HMS Impregnable and HMS Hindustan. The frontage on Great Marlborough Street is the same length as the Hindustan. It forms a three storey archway over the Northern entrance to the Kingly Street mall that houses the Liberty Clock in its centre

26  The Grapes public house c.1830 - it was closed and integrated with the Liberty store in 1968

27 - 28 Lord John Carnaby Hall boutique (Warren and David Gold) c.1964

29  Shakespeare's Head public house first licensed c1743 rebuilt 1927. Renamed Shakespeare's Head by 1934 (after original landlord John Shakespeare?). The ground floor facing Carnaby Street housed Chubbie's Sandwich Bar c.1973

30 - 31 James Galt (Galt's Toys) toy shop (James Galt) c.1966 formerly Nos. 29 and 28 Great Marlborough Street, previously Nos. 28 and 29 Carnaby Street. "30 and 31 Great Marlborough Street appear to be early eighteenth-century houses, four storeys high and each four windows wide, No. 31 having a return front of four windows (one blind) to Foubert's Place. A modern shop fills the ground floor of both houses and the rest of the exterior has been stuccoed, with joints imitating stonework, the windows being dressed with moulded architraves. The interiors have been completely modernised"

32   All Woollens Ltd (?)       34   Village Gate boutique (Irvine Sellars)       35   Cafe (full name?)

35 - 36   Mister Carnaby boutique (Nathan and Susie Spiegel, who also owned the PAUL boutique)

37 - 38   Public House formerly Fanfare & Firkin, The Dog and Trumpet and Marlboro Head since c.1739. Numbered 38 in 1882. Rebuilt 1886 when it was incorporated with No.37

Previously Tyler Street, a small section of Fouberts Place originally extended westwards 2nd image 1967. The individual shops located here disappeared during the rebuilding of Regent Street during the 1920's, including a branch of Hamley's. Street View 1972

Unknown number: Vince Man's Shop boutique c.1961 (Bill Green). Also see street images above which show signs for other businesses - location number unclear. These include: Argus Bureau staff agency, .... Morris milliners, City Tote, Barnes tailors and Insta....

4   William Earl's Bakery and Tea Room c.1906 shared its premises with a Post Office

8   Millers sandwiches c.1969      10 F. Ward c.1969      12 Shelly's sandwiches and snacks c.1969

13 Donis boutique (Andrew Spyropoulos)      14 Joe Blume's (?) restaurant c.1969

15 I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet boutique (Ian Fisk and John Paul) c.1967. Originally at 293 Portobello Rd
(Robert Orbach / John Paul). Another branch was opened in Piccadilly Circus and John Paul later opened
I Was Lord Kitcheners Thing in the Kings Road

17 Finlays tobacconists c.1967     19 Donis shoe shop (shoe repairs) 21 Cafe / restaurant (Rouge et Noir?)

22 Mr. Carnaby boutique - later Honey... c.1968 Street View

28 Not known The building appears in the Post Office directories 1871-1901 as the Aberdeen Free School

29 Yesterday's Bread boutique

31 Foubert Mansions This site was previously a public House The Nag's Head c.1830-1910 renamed Diamond Reign in 1896, the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Listed as 30 Marshall Street in 1884

34 City Tote Ltd. betting shop c.1962

Take Six and a Cafe in Little Marlborough Street? see picture

La Carretta A diner's club owned by Paul Inga where three girls in topless Grecian-style toga dresses served drinks in the basement area of the three-floor restaurant

Marshall Street View 1962

7 - 8 In the 1968 London directory William Blake House is listed as Cranks offices.
Now a tower block, the board on the building says: 'William Blake was born on 28th November 1767 in a house which stood on this site'

37 Carnaby House. In the 1968 London directory this is listed as Cranks granary

In October 1973 rubberised coloured paving tiles were unveiled on Carnaby Street as part of Westminster City Council's £60,000 face-lift for the
newly-pedestrianised street. Parts, or all of other local streets were also pedestrianised

John Stephen - 1934 - 2004 - The King of Carnaby Street