London's Carnaby Street is in the district of Soho and just to the east of Regent Street. It was first made popular by followers of the Mod style in the 1960s. It then had many fashion boutiques and independent music shops, and was associated with the Swinging Sixties. The name was associated with fashion and with designers such as Mary Quant. Today Carnaby Street is more mainstream with many chain shops and restaurants and fewer independent outlets, and is popular with young shoppers and to a minor degree with tourists. London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... This article is about the district of Greater London. ... Nashs Regent Street in 1829. ... Mod (or, to use its full name, Modernism or sometimes Modism) was a lifestyle based around fashion and music that developed in London in the late 1950s and reached its peak in the early to mid 1960s. ... Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ... Woodstock: the iconic Sixties event The Sixties in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969 (see: 1960s), but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past 20 years. ... Mary Quant (born February 11, 1934) is an English fashion designer one of the many designers who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants. ...

The Carnaby Estate is partly pedestrianised and extends from Kingly Street in the west to Poland Street in the east and is bordered by Great Marlborough and Beak streets.

The only two pubs actually on Carnaby Street are the Firkin and the Shakespeares Head, both near the Great Marlborough Street end at the north. From 1999 until its bankruptcy in May 2000 Carnaby Street was also the address of high profile dot com era internet fashion retailer boo.com. A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries influenced by British cultural heritage. ... A Firkin is an old English unit of volume. ... Great Marlborough Street runs west to east through the western part of Soho in London, England. ... Boo. ...

Nearby places of interest include Broadwick Street, where you can still see the water pump that John Snow famously sealed up to stop an outbreak of Cholera in 1854, Hamleys and the rest of Regent Street, and Golden Square just to the south, which during the summer is crammed with office workers trying to catch the sun. Only a few hundred years earlier Golden Square was used as a burial pit during the Black Death. Broadwick Street (formerly Broad Street) is a street in London that was the center of an 1854 outbreak of cholera. ... The British physician John Snow (March 15, 1813 - June 16, 1858) was a leader in the adoption of anaesthesia and medical hygiene, and a pioneer of epidemiology. ... distribution of cholera Cholera (also called Asiatic cholera) is an infectious disease of the gastrointestinal tract caused by the Vibrio cholerae bacterium. ... 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Hamleys is one of the worlds largest toy shops. ... Nashs Regent Street in 1829. ... Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible. ...

See Also

• Haight-Ashbury

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External link

• Official site (http://www.carnaby.co.uk/)