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	St Giles' Circus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		St Giles' Circus the intersection of Oxford Street, New Oxford Street, Charing Cross Road and Tottenham Court Road in the West End of London.
		The area was historically known as St Giles.
		The Church of St Giles in the field next to the Inn was founded in 1116 by Matilda of Boulogne as a leper church and hospital whose estate ran south as far as todays Shaftesbury Avenue.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St_Giles'_Circus (497 words)

	New Oxford Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Oxford Street [0.2 mile (0.3km) in length] is a shopping street in London's West End, an eastward continuation of Oxford Street proper from St Giles' Circus to Bloomsbury Way, Holborn.
		New Oxford Street suffers from bus congestion in the evenings, often the entire length of the road is one big bus traffic jam.
		There is a plan to solve the bus traffic problems by using a contraflow on Bloomsbury Way.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Oxford_Street (131 words)

	St Giles' Circus
		St Giles' Circus is the region of London's West End located at the intersection of Oxford Street, New Oxford Street, Charing Cross Road and Tottenham Court Road.
		The area is dominated by Centrepoint Tower, located on the south east corner on New Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road.
		Tottenham Court Road tube station is located beneath the intersection.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/St_Giles'_Circus.html (77 words)

	Juergs London Guide - Strand
		The next street along is Craven St., at 34 Heinrich Heine lived in 1827, and at 36 Benjamin Franklin resided from 1757-62 and 1764-72.
		The Police station on Agar St is the former Charing Cross Hospital.
		At the north end of Buckingham St is John Adam St. This is the site of the Adelphi, a housing development build between 1768 and 1774 by the four Adams brothers.
	www.juerg.ch /london/strand-area/index.shtml (3163 words)

	St Giles Hotel
		The St Giles hotel, London is a large modern 3 star hotel excellently located in the heart of London's popular West End.
		Accommodation at the St Giles is in four interconnected towers of 6, 7, 9 and 12 floors respectively.
		The St Giles Hotel London is approximately 50 metres along Tottenham Court Road from Tottenham Court Road Tube station (Northern and Central lines).
	www.travelstay.com /pages/StGiles.htm (448 words)

	Pikle - London Cross - 52 - St Giles High Street (past, present and future) and model flats for families
		Turning right onto St Giles High Street, past a monstrous grey Ministry of Defence building (St Giles Court), it's clear that, despite the presence of a church, this is not much of a high street any longer.
		In the 18th and 19th centuries, the area was notorious for its poverty, crime and overcrowding, and was known as the Rookery.
		At the east end of St Giles High Street, there is a jumble of roads and a confusion of traffic across which the Oasis sports centre and Shaftesbury Theatre are visible.
	www.pikle.demon.co.uk /londoncross/londoncross52.html (723 words)

	Juergs London Guide - Soho
		Soho is the area bounded by Regent St to the west, Oxford St to the north, Charing Cross Rd to the east and Pall Mall, Trafalgar Square to the south.
		To the western end of Beak St is Kingly St, with St Thomas's Church which was built in 1702.
		At the crossing with Lexington St stands the John Snow pub, it is named after Dr. John Snow who was responsible for the locking up of the nearby well during the cholera epidemic of 1854.
	www.juerg.ch /london/soho-area/index.shtml (1789 words)

	St Giles Hotel 3 star London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Other sights close to the St. Giles are the Trocadero, Piccadilly Circus, Madame Tussaud's and the Planetarium and the nearby tube links you directly to the museums of South Kensington and more retail heaven at Harrod's of Knightsbridge.
		Underneath the St. Giles is a large leisure centre owned and managed by the YMCA for which guests enjoy free membership.
		The St. Giles is in close proximity to the theatres, clubs and restaurants of the West End and the concierge desk will arrange theatre tickets and sightseeing tours.
	www.hotellondonbooking.com /london-hotel/bloomsbury-st-giles.asp?skey=go0112805 (405 words)

	Oxford Circus, England royalty-free image
		A little farther on we reach Oxford Circus, where Oxford St. intersects Regent St. Here, on the south side, are stations of the Central London Railway and of the Bakerloo Tube.
		Berners Street is noted for the 'great Berners St. hoax,' by which Theodore Hook for a wager overwhelmed a modest residence in this street by directing to it a stream of unexpected goods of every description, including a hearse.
		Museum St., at the corner of which is Mudie's, the well-known circulating library, lead to Great Russell Street, in which is the British Museum (Walk 37).
	www.gardenvisit.com /travel/london/oxfordcircus.htm (472 words)

	Finnimore Family Genealogy on Finnimore.com
		It is therefore not surprising that twins appear frequently in successive generations and that her surname has been adopted as a second and third name by the eldest sons of successive generations, giving rise to a family line that is often identified as the 'Rexford' Finnimores.
		St Michael's, Crooked Lane, a church in Candlewick Ward in the City of London, was destroyed in the Great Fire of London.
		The parish of St Giles is where the Great Plague of 1665 started and in one month 1391 burials were recorded.
	www.finnimore.com (5504 words)

	inIVA: tourist season - Harold Clunn's The Face of London - High Holborn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The most amazing fact was that amidst this great filth the inhabitants of St Giles's, who often slept fifty persons in one room, enjoyed excellent health, except perhaps in the hot weather, when these dens of misery and filth threw forth the most offensive smells, which were sometimes overpowering.
		In the squalid back rookeries of St Giles's picturesque scenes could sometimes be witnessed equal to those seen by tourists and artists who had travelled extensively in foreign cities.
		In St John's Square north of the gate is St John's Church, which was restored in 1901, but the courtyard of the priory was removed in 1877 to make way for the construction of Clerkenwell Road.
	www.iniva.org /season/tourist/article_11 (3165 words)

	Bookstores in the United Kingdom (London) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Giles' Circus and is also where you will find Tottenham Court Road tube station (Northern and Central lines), the Dominion Theatre and the hideous Centre Point office building.
		St. Martin's Court is to the left just past Leicester Square tube station.
		The second-hand bookshops are in the southern part of this road, closer to Leicester Square; the new ones are north, closer to Tottenham Court.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/4824/uk-lond.htm (4475 words)

	St Giles, Oxford
		They were largely patronized by old and young, and the proprietors of 'the plant' will carry with them pleasant recollections of the fair....
		The Oxford Bible stall was, as usual, erected near St John's and Mr Wheelhouse and Commander Williams courteously received all comers.
		Tracts were freely distributed, and the Church Army held meetings in St Giles' on both days....
	www.headington.org.uk /oxon/stgiles/fair/1889_chronicle.htm (419 words)

	St.Giles Hotel - London
		Located at the junction of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road in the Heart of London's West End, the St. Giles Hotel is within easy walking distance of the main shopping areas, attractions and theatres.
		Wonderfully located if you want to be close to the hub of London is the St Giles Hotel.
		On the Eastern edge of Oxford Street which is the side closest to the City of London the hotel is walking distance to Soho and Convent Garden.
	www.londonhotels.demon.co.uk /stgiles.html (326 words)

	St. Giles Hotel London - Discount London Hotel Reservations
		By Car: Drive time from Heathrow International Airport to the St. Giles Hotel London is approximately 50 minutes.
		By Car: Drive time from Gatwick International Airport to the St. Giles Hotel London is approximately 80 minutes.
		From Victoria Station take a taxi or Victoria (Light Blue) Tube Line to Oxford Circus and change to the Central (Red) Tube Line to Tottenham Court Road Station, which is a 5 minute walk to the St. Giles Hotel London.
	directrooms.com /england/hotels/st-giles-hotel-london-1268.htm (327 words)

	Covent Garden History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It was built up rapidly between 1677 and 1683 when the Bishop was fund-raising for the planned Soho parish church which he dedicated St Anne's in 1686.
		In 1711 the vestry of St Anne's Soho put the population of the parish at 8,133 and forty percent of these were thought to be French, mostly lodgers rather than householders.
		This was partly due to the influx of Huguenots to Soho when Charles II offered 'all such afflicted Protestants' his royal protection in 1681 as they fled from the active discrimination of Louis XIV.
	www.coventgarden.uk.com /oldcomp.html (822 words)

	Dickens' London Map
		In the sketch Gin-Shops (Sketches by Boz) Dickens reports that "the gin-shops in and near Drury-Lane, Holborn, St. Giles's, Covent-garden, and Clare-market, are the handsomest in London.
		Amy Dorrit's father, William, was also imprisoned at the Marshalsea and St. George's church where Amy Dorrit was christened and married is adjacent to the Marshalsea (Little Dorrit).
		Dickens describes a visit to a miserable lodging house in St. Giles where the poor, mostly Irish emigrants, are "heaped upon the floor like maggots in cheese" (On Duty with Inspector Field - Household Words, June 1851).
	charlesdickenspage.com /dickens_london_map.html (6271 words)

	The St. Giles Hotel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ideally located for guests who want to be close to the central hub of London, the St Giles Hotel is a short walk from Tottenham Court Road underground station in the heart of the West End and Theatreland in Covent Garden.
		Nearby attractions include Trocadero Centre, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, Madame Taussauds, Houses of Parliament and the British Museum.
		St Giles Hotel London is known to be Europe's Largest Independent Hotel within it's category, with 655 bedrooms divided into a range of Standard, Superior & Mini Suites.
	www.londonhotelreservation.com /hotels/stgiles.htm (357 words)

	Special Report The evolution of ELT February 2005, The evolution of ELT, English language training is one of the motors ...
		Oxford-based St Clares in the UK - which was originally known as the Oxford English Centre for Foreign Students - was set up in 1953 to offer, according to Ed Peters, Business Manager at the school, short-term courses for students to supplement their degree courses in their own country.
		The first St Giles College was founded in 1955 in central London by Paul and Diana Lindsay.
		The two schools in Brazil are joint ventures between St Giles and Central de Intercambio.
	www.hothousemedia.com /ltm/ltmbackissues/feb05web/feb05specreport.htm (3495 words)

	St Giles Circus Pedestrian Movement and Safety Report \| Intelligent Space Partnership Ltd
		Intelligent Space undertook a major study of pedestrian movement and accident risk at St. Giles Circus for the London Borough of Camden.
		Using innovative CCTV-based surveying and computer-based visualisation techniques, we were able to show the how the poor location of pedestrian crossing facilities currently contributes to the £2.6m cost of accidents per year in this strategic intersection of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road.
		This study advised Camden on the potential benefit of safety improvements in preparation for a planning inquiry into a redevelopment of the area.
	www.intelligentspace.com /projects/04958.htm (145 words)

	Guardian \| Whose tower is it anyway?
		In truth, Centre Point, like pretty much any building above the size of a kitchen extension, was a collaboration between various professionals, in this case between Seifert, Marsh (the senior partner), Harry Hyams (the property developer who commissioned it), London county council (which approved it) and a host of engineers, contractors and builders.
		The great Edwin Lutyens got invaluable support from his talented assistant Arthur Shoosmith in the design of New Delhi, before the younger man went on to design his own lasting monument, the superb Garrison Church in the former imperial capital.
		Only last year, we were told that 30 St Mary Axe, the office tower popularly known as the Gherkin, was the brainchild of Ken Shuttleworth, a former partner of Norman Foster.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5096297-110428,00.html (281 words)

	London Shopping Guide
		Running from Trafalgar Square to St Giles’ Circus, where it turns into Tottenham Court Road, Charing Cross Road has a reputation for it’s bookshops, specialising in everything from titles on...
		In the midst of Piccadilly Circus to the south and Oxford Street to the north, and Regent Street to the west and Charing Cross road to the east, lies Soho...
		Running south from Euston Road and intersecting with Charing Cross Road and Oxford Street at St Giles’ Circus, Tottenham Court Road forms part of the edge of the City of...
	www.londononline.co.uk /Shopping (374 words)

	Majicat - London Times - Top Cat
		His was in all the streets roaring with taxi’s, twisting with grimy Gothic, around St Giles’s Circus, which can often be empty as Sunday.
		Not in the way of Mick Jagger, who merely gratifies the universal fondness for circus clowns, but in seeming to possess what may be prized above sexuality - wisdom.
		There are middle-aged men whom Father and Son can bring close to tears, with its descanting young and old voices, its feeling of desperately trying to understand too late.
	www.majicat.com /articles/londonSun.htm (2061 words)

	Mots Pluriels O. R. Dathorne
		The Bible, St Augustine, Cicero and all the "right sources" which Las Casas cited, had asserted that it was wrong to enslave Indians because they were civilized.
		[26] In a curious way, then, these circus parades of the Other in European capitals, could be reduced to a mere commodity spectacle, but the European viewers also registered pity, empathy, and a feeling of responsibility.
		So that, for instance, the servant or groom turns up in other depictions as one of the magi (which is a carryover from the sixteenth century).
	www.arts.uwa.edu.au /MotsPluriels/MP1199ord.html (5771 words)

	Neighborhoods of London: EuroCheapo's Guide to Cheap Hotels in London.
		Situated north of Piccadilly Circus and the West End, leafy Bloomsbury is famous as the former headquarters bohemian writing clique known as the Bloomsbury Group.
		Aside from its proximity to Victoria, Buckingham Palace and the lovely grounds of St. James's Park are just up the street and Westminster Abbey is but a short Tube ride away.
		The area bounded by Oxford, Piccadilly, Cambridge and St. Giles Circus called Soho is a mishmash of activity.
	www.eurocheapo.com /london/hoods (1119 words)

	ST GILES HOTEL, London, United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The St Giles Hotel is a modern 3 Star property in the heart of the West End.
		The St Giles has 2 restaurants with a combined bar that caters to all tastes, occasions and budgets.
		The hotel offers free access to one of Central London's largest leisure centres that is located directly beneath the St Giles Hotel.
	www.your-london-hotels.com /forview/united-kingdom/london/st-giles-hotel.html (153 words)

	Index: K-Z \| British History Online
		King Street, St. Anne's 20, 22, 27, 32, 33n., 205, 347, 361, 367, 383, 386, 411, 412—13; figs.
		Lloyd, William (Dean of Bangor, vicar of St. Martin's in the Fields) 128n., 280—1
		Patente French Church, St. Anne's 150, 294, 294n.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=41133 (1486 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Seifert, Richard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Immediately after, however, he began a series of designs based on the expert use of complex concrete castings, perhaps inspired by the American practice of Marcel Breuer, which exploited the compositional potential of the Modern Movement.
		The most notable example of this is Centre Point (1966), a speculative office tower with an undulating precast cladding and pilotis at St Giles’s Circus, London, which has become a symbol of the property boom of the time.
		As at Centre Point, a similarly plastic use of pilotis can also be seen at Magnet House, Kingsway, London (1960), and at Tolworth Tower, Surbiton, London (1962), the latter an imposing office slab standing in a piazza.
	www.artnet.com /library/07/0774/T077435.asp (292 words)

	eBay.co.uk - Circus, Fairground, Circus Fairground, Circus Pinder items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Poster for Circus J Richard(France)1970 of G Houcke.
		Knie's circus poster of V Trubka 1959 (Switzerland)
		Russian poster for circus show Russian and Ludmilla 1983.
	collectables.listings.ebay.co.uk /Memorabilia_Circus-Fairground_W0QQsacatZ2017QQsocmdZListingItemList (246 words)

	Bernard O'Mahoney - Shaughnessy Murder - Documents - 21/06/95 - 1st Affidavit of Debra Angela King
		Some people laughed and put the phone down, but eventually by these means we established that all the calls were being made at various call boxes between St Giles Circus, South Bank University, New Kent Road and Peckham.
		We knew that Ray Buck, the Second Plaintiffs husband, worked at the Velvet Underground nightclub in St Giles Circus.
		I could only conclude that he was making the calls, which was borne out by the timing of the calls: they would have coincided with him making his way home from his work as a doorman in the early hours of the morning.
	www.bernardomahoney.com /ttsisters/documents/1staffiddk.shtml (2010 words)

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