Gerrard Street, London

[4] In fiction, Charles Dickens sets the home of Mr Jaggers, the lawyer in Great Expectations, in "a house on the south side of that street.

[5] A Royal Society of Arts blue plaque commemorates Edmund Burke at 37 Gerrard Street.

4 Gerrard Street was a small studio where the theatrical photographer George Harrison Marks and his partner Pamela Green, lived and worked.

The director Michael Powell copied their sets for the classic film Peeping Tom, in which Green also starred.

In 1956 number 44 was taken over by the owners of the 2i's Coffee Bar on Old Compton Street as a second branch in response to the original 2i's rapid success.

In the late 1960s it became Happening 44, a club with décor mixing psychedelic and bondage aesthetics, featuring bands such as The Deviants.

[9] A basement in Gerrard Street was the location of the first rehearsal of Led Zeppelin in August 1968, where they played "Train Kept A-Rollin'".

Gerrard Street is highly decorated for special occasions, here for Chinese New Year 2004.
43 Gerrard Street