Monmouth Street

Throughout the 18th century and for most of the 19th, Monmouth Street was famous for its old clothes shops.

[2] In the 19th century, Monmouth Street was widened to form the eastern part of Shaftesbury Avenue, and the name disappeared.

The part north of Seven Dials was called Great St Andrew's Street and the part south of Seven Dials Little St Andrew's Street.

Pollock's Toy Museum started in 1956 in a single attic room at No.

44 above Benjamin Pollock's Toy Shop, but outgrew the premises and moved in 1969 to Scala Street.