Manette Street is a small street in the

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area of

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, linking the Charing Cross Road to

Greek Street Greek Street is a street in Soho, London, leading south from Soho Square to Shaftesbury Avenue. The street is famous for its restaurants and cosmopolitan nature. History It is thought to take its name from a Greek church that was built in ...

. Dating from the 1690s, and formerly named Rose Street, it is now named after the fictional character of Dr Manette in

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's ''

A Tale of Two Cities ''A Tale of Two Cities'' is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in ...

'', who is described in the book as living on a quiet street corner "not far from Soho Square". Buildings on the street include the

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pub. The

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has a chapel and garden facing onto Manette Street, and an entrance to

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nightclub is accessed from Manette Street. The street was home to the now-demolished Foyles Building and also Goldbeater's House, which had an arm-and-hammer sign outside it, a replica of the original described by Dickens in ''A Tale of Two Cities''. The street was associated with anarchism in the 19th century, in particular in association with the

Rose Street Club The Rose Street Club (sometimes the International Rose Street Club and earlier the Local Rights Association for Rental and Sanitary Reform) was a far-left, anarchist organisation based in what is now Manette Street, London. Originally centr ...

, known for its popularity with radicals of all nationalities.

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View down Manette Street from the Greek Street end

View of entry to Greek Street from the Manette Street end
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