Dean Street

He spent the night drawing up his final battleplans, including the masterstroke of painting identifiable gold and black checks on the ships.

Charles Dickens was also a regular on Dean Street when he was a young actor enthusiastically participating in amateur productions at Fanny Kelly's Royalty Theatre at number 73–74.

In 1845 he starred in an adaptation of Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, which met mixed reviews; Dickens' acting was said to be of debatable merit.

Karl Marx lived at 28 Dean Street between 1851 and 1856, above what is now the Hart Brothers restaurant Quo Vadis.

Dean Street has in recent years been a centre of the creative and advertising industries including film and video editing facilities; this was especially true from the 1960s to the 1990s.

The celebrated Gargoyle Club ran for 27 years in the upper floors at number 69,[1] an address that also housed the nightclub Billy's in its cellars during the late 1970s.