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 Cambridge Circus, London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cambridge Circus is a London traffic intersection (not actually a roundabout) at the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road.
In several of the spy novels written by John le Carré and featuring the character George Smiley (for example, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), the Secret Intelligence Service is referred to as "The Circus" because of its supposed location at Cambridge Circus.
The junction is situated about halfway between Tottenham Court Road tube station (at St Giles' Circus) and Leicester Square.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cambridge_Circus,_London   (159 words)

  
 Circus (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A circus is a traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts.
Circus, a genus of harriers, a type of bird of prey
In many novels by John le Carré, the British Secret Intelligence Service is referred to as The Circus, due to its (fictional) location in Cambridge Circus, London.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Circus   (223 words)

  
 London travel guide - Wikitravel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
London [1] is the capital and largest city of both the United Kingdom and of England, and the largest European city.
London's long association with the theatre, for example, can be traced back to the English Renaissance (witness the Rose Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe) and great playwrights, like Shakespeare, who made London their home.
London is easily the largest city in the country, eight times larger than England's 'second' city, Birmingham, and dominates the economic, political and social life of the United Kingdom (much to the annoyance of people in "the provinces" - i.e.
wikitravel.org /en/London   (13190 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Cambridge Circus (comedy)
Cambridge Circus is a comedy revue that played in London in the 1960s.
Unfortunately the title sometimes confused audiences, as it was not actually playing at Cambridge Circus itself.
Originally a Cambridge Footlights production, the show starred John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, David Hatch, and Jonathan Lynn.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Cambridge_Circus_%28comedy%29   (276 words)

  
 The Fantastical Beat Circus Music Show
The Beat Circus Vaudeville Orchestra will be performing on five consecutive shows as part of a larger event which marks the 90th anniversary of the Regent Theater in Arlington, MA.
Beat Circus returns to Tonic in NYC on Thursday August 24 to perform new music from their forthcoming record with special guests cellist Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons) and trombonist Curtis Hasselbring (Golem, Frank London).
The Beat Circus will debut a new set of dark carnival songs sung through bullhorns and pipes on Thursday January 26 2006 at TT The Bears with special guest Adam Glasseye of Reverend Glasseye...also performing on this show are some of our favorite bands including HUMANWINE, Casey Dienel, and Sxip Shirey.
www.thebeatcircus.com   (1702 words)

  
 Spice of Life, Cambridge Circus, London - pub details # beerintheevening.com
If you manage to survive the fumes of one of London's biggest traffic bottlenecks, you can be harrassed for money by passing tramps on a seemingly endless basis.
Standing guard over the entrance to Soho at Cambridge Circus, the Spice is enjoying a revival thanks to an egalitarian policy of daily live entertainment and to upping the ante on food and drink offerings.
In its crossroads location, the Spice was always a place for a passing pint — but the decision to throw open its basement Backstage Bar to jazz musicians twice a week, indie bands thrice, bluesers on Tuesdays and open-mic try-outs on Mondays has generated a new community of regulars spanning the generations.
www.beerintheevening.com /pubs/s/13/13312/Spice_of_Life/Cambridge_Circus   (691 words)

  
 London/Soho - Wikitravel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Soho is a region of central London, part of the West End, generally considered to be enclosed by Piccadilly Circus, Shaftesbury Avenue and Cambridge Circus to the south, Charing Cross Road to the east, Oxford Street to the north, and Regent Street to the west.
Soho is also the hub of London's media world with multiple advertising agencies, television and radio studios and post-production companies choosing Soho as their base of operations.
An Underground station serves each of the four approximate corners of Soho: Tottenham Court Road to the north-east, Oxford Circus to the north-west, Leicester Square to the south-east, and Piccadilly Circus to the south-west.
wikitravel.org /en/London/Soho   (1339 words)

  
 cambridge circus, london - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
cambridge circus, london - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Cambridge Circus is a busy London traffic intersection (not actually a roundabout) at the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road.
Beer in the evening - Pubs in Cambridge Circus
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Cambridge-Circus,-London   (110 words)

  
 Cambridge University Press - Cambridge English Readers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
There were entries from all around the world, and the top prize (awarded by a panel of judges headed by Series Editor, Philip Prowse) went to two sisters from Poland, Edyta and Beata Lisowska, for their alternative ending to John Doe by Antoinette Moses.
Their prize was a visit to Cambridge, and they set out for the UK one cold, crisp November weekend, accompanied by Martyna Janiszewska, Cambridge University Press ELT Consultant in Poland.
Cambridge University Press had yet one more surprise for us - a day trip to London - the place we had been dreaming about for a long, long time.
www.cambridge.org /elt/readers/student/winners1.htm   (914 words)

  
 Against London congestion Charging
An anti congestion charge public meeting attracting hundreds of people was held in central London recently.
The first ever public meeting to be held about the congestion charge took place at The Palace Theatre in Cambridge Circus on the 20th January 2003.
The meeting discussed the imminent legal challenge to the congestion charge, and appeals were made for people to come forward and volunteer to help fight the charge.
www.nocongestioncharging.com /meeting.htm   (112 words)

  
 The Far Pavilions, London, Shaftesbury Theatre, 115 Shaftesbury Avenue, Cambridge Circus, London, WC2H 8AF
The Far Pavilions, London, Shaftesbury Theatre, 115 Shaftesbury Avenue, Cambridge Circus, London, WC2H 8AF
Shaftesbury Theatre, 115 Shaftesbury Avenue, Cambridge Circus, London, WC2H 8AF
THE FAR PAVILIONS, is the new £4 million musical based on the novel by M. Kaye, which will have its World Premiere in London at the Shaftesbury Theatre on Thursday 14 April 2005, following previews from 24 March.
www.viewlondon.co.uk /events_44545.html   (226 words)

  
 Marquis of Granby, Cambridge Circus, London - pub details # beerintheevening.com
London by Pub: Pub Walks Around Historic London - a great way to get to know London.
Historic Pubs of London - information about 100 of London's most interesting and authentic pubs, including stunning photographs.
NB: Information may be incomplete or out of date as this pub is not currently registered.
beerintheevening.com /pubs/s/18/1810/Marquis_of_Granby/Cambridge_Circus   (471 words)

  
 Circus
A public equipped space for shows and other spectacles of the Classical period (e.g., in ancient Rome, the Circus Maximus); the term derives from the circular shape of the first arenas in which, mostly, horse and biga (two-horse chariot) races were run.
An open space, usually circular, where a number of roads meet, such as Oxford Circus, Cambridge Circus and Piccadilly Circus in London.
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/c/ci/circus.html   (162 words)

  
 The Global Business and Finance Research Conference
Situated in the heart of Mayfair and overlooking Hyde Park, this luxury hotel is central to all London's famous attractions and sights.
All 450 guest rooms boast stunning views over the city, while recent refurbishment has ensured that the 55 individually designed suites are among the finest in the country.
You can just type "London Hotels" in your search engine.
www.jaabc.com /londonhotel.html   (291 words)

  
 Cambridge Community Circus
The annual London to Cambridge cycle ride was joined by CCC and friends this year, raising money for breast cancer research and the Community Circus.
Each stint between official rest stops was completed by a pair, with one riding a unicycle and the other on a standard bicycle.
The finish was covered by Anglia Television and the Cambridge Evening News and Claire Durant was interviewed en route by BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
www.chaos.org.uk /ccc/events/unilondontocambridge.htm   (228 words)

  
 type_Document_Title_here   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This is the lesser known Cambridge Circus - little brother to Oxford Circus?
The obelisk in the centre of the picture has a sundial on each of its four faces - must be useable on very few days of the year.
You can see that this is a beautiful day in London but...
home.freeuk.net /pwhyte/CambridgeCircus.html   (74 words)

  
 Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Cambridge University Press
Life in London has so many attractions - nightclubs, good restaurants and so on.
The opportunity to travel is one of the main attractions of this job.
Many more resources are available from Cambridge ELT.
dictionary.cambridge.org /results.asp?searchword=attract   (192 words)

  
 All Bar One, Cambridge Circus, London - pub details # beerintheevening.com
Address: 84 Cambridge Circus, London, WC2H 8AA [map] [gmap]
London Charing Cross (0.4 miles), London Waterloo (1.1 miles), London Waterloo East (1.1 miles)
Marquis of Granby, Cambridge Circus (0.0 miles), Cambridge, Soho (0.0 miles), O'Neills, Soho (0.0 miles), Molly Moggs, Soho (0.0 miles), Montagu Pyke, Charing Cross Road (0.0 miles) - see more nearby pubs
www.beerintheevening.com /pubs/show.shtml/6309/All_Bar_One/Cambridge_Circus   (288 words)

  
 New Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
London is a huge city with many different sections.
After a 50-minute train ride, this is where one arrives in London from Cambridge.
Underneath this station is a tube station for the Piccadilly Line that one can use to go all over London.
socrates.berkeley.edu /~jlbrooks/cambridge/london.htm   (175 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | London | 'Bad' drivers facing £100 fines
Drivers who ignore road signs, block box junctions and misuse bus lanes in some of central London's congestion hot spots will be fined £100 from Monday.
Westminster Council said the measures would "keep traffic moving and improve road safety".
Paul Hodgeson, of the RAC, said: "Motorists see these measures as revenue-raising very often so we want to see some, perhaps the majority, of this revenue being ploughed back into local road safety initiatives.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/london/4477150.stm   (246 words)

  
 info: Cambridge_Circus,_London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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St Martin s Theatre West Street Cambridge Circus London WC2H 9NZ Travel: Underground: Leicester Square (PIccadilly/Northern lines) - From station head up Long Acre (east) then head left (north...
www.napoli-pizza.net /Cambridge_Circus%2C_London.html   (210 words)

  
 Cambridge Circus, Soho, London
Cambridge Circus is the area around the junction of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road in the heart of London's Soho.
Dominating the scene is the Palace Theatre, built in 1891 in a style described as 'scholarly Flemish renaissance'.
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www.urban75.org /vista/cambridge.html   (84 words)

  
 screenonline: Smiley's People (1982)
He had uncovered a mole within the Service (nicknamed 'The Circus' because the HQ is located near Cambridge Circus in London) that had been in the employ of Karla, Smiley's KGB opposite number at 'Moscow Centre'.
In the latter case, the decision was made to bring the character closer to the original book, so that he now appears with a bouffant hairpiece and a Hungarian accent that he presumably regained after being kicked out of the 'Circus' at the end of
While the earlier series was set mostly in London, with sections in (what was then) Czechoslovakia and Portugal, the new story mostly takes place in Paris, Germany and Switzerland, with Smiley closing in on Karla by finding an unexpected weak spot while investigating the death of an ex-agent.
www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/803465/index.html   (378 words)

  
 The London Theatre Page in Luxury Traveler
This is the 20th of these biennial festivals in which choirs from all over the world mass to produce a breathtaking spectacle and an unforgettable evening of music.
The London Welsh Male Voice Choir will be joined on stage this year by 13 choirs from Australia, Canada, England, Scotland and of course, Wales.
These period performances offer not only one of the very few chances in London to hear these magnificent compositions, but also to the opportunity hear them on instruments for which they were written and in the setting in which they would have been heard.
www.luxurytraveler.com /london-theatre.html   (4731 words)

  
  Cambridge, Chicago | Official London Theatre Guide
The musical, which won the 1998 Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production, includes the songs All That Jazz, Razzle Dazzle, Class and All I Care.
Chicago, which ran at the Adelphi theatre between 1997 and 2006, returns to the Cambridge theatre where it first opened back in 1979 and ran for 603 performances.
There is a public cash telephone in the foyer, behind a glass door which opens outwards.
www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk /shows/display?contentId=87804   (486 words)

  
 Girlinky gigs
Saturday 23rd July at The Spice of Life, 6 Moor St, Cambridge Circus, London.
16th December at The Comedy, Piccadilly Circus with The Cornerstones and The Roolettes.
12th March at the London School of Economics with Ciccone and Plastik.
www.futronica.com /Girlinky/Gigs/gigs.htm   (939 words)

  
 St Martin's Theatre London - Information, Bookings & Seating Plan
The St Martin's Theatre was designed by the well known theatre architect W G R Sprague and was originally intended to be one of a pair with the adjacent Ambassadors Theatre which opened in 1913.
See what musicals, plays, comedies, concerts & events are on in London.
Use this site to book London theater tickets online before your arrival in London, England UK.
www.1st4londontheatre.co.uk /theatres/st_martins.shtml   (169 words)

  
 The Spice Of Life, W1 | Bods's Blog | Planet Bods
So enough of the beer and onto the pub.
Located at Cambridge Circus in London, The Spice Of Life is a pretty bog standard, slightly trendy looking pub in the centre of London.
Indeed, on the top list of interesting and exciting pubs to visit, an All Bar One is probably above it - and that’s saying something.
www.planetbods.org /blog/2005/05/16/the_spice_of_li.live   (279 words)

  
 All Bar One London - Bar Review, , 84 Cambridge Circus
All Bar One London - Bar Review,, 84 Cambridge Circus
When it arrived it, the coffee was cold, the food was the wrong order, and if they just applied the age old art of penmanship, the order would have been right.
Totally disappointed for the 7th time, will not be going in again, they have a serious staff shortage, which needs addressing, a manager on the floor would be a revolutionary idea and as a resident of London, I don't expect the tourists would be too happy with the shocking service either.
www.viewlondon.co.uk /review_1473.html   (381 words)

  
 Pictures of London theatres Covent Garden and Soho - photography by Christopher Holt
These photographs cover the theatres of Covent Garden and Soho in the West End.
Theatres do exist in other parts of London, but the sheer variety here is astounding.
If you decide to visit London, you must try to have an evening out at one of London's theatres - you won't regret it!
www.christopherholt.com /subjects/london_14.htm   (199 words)

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