SOHO (Not on the Monopoly Board, but couldn't resist)
Soho got its name from Henry the VIII’s hunting times. When a hunter spotted a deer they would shout ‘Tally-Ho’, but with smaller prey they would yell ‘So-Ho’. The area started to be developed after the Great Fire of London in 1666, when over 13,000 houses were destroyed and 100,000 citizens left homeless. Soho, then called Soho Fields, was the obvious choice for the wealthy to build their property, being within easy reach of the royal palaces of Westminster, Whitehall and St James’s. Eventually the rich moved west, towards Mayfair and St James’s. NB (Great) Marlborough Street is in Soho but has a Monopoly square of its own. So it’s already been done and dusted. …. this was the third and last London nail bomb attack inside two weeks by David Copeland, a self-confessed racist and homophobe. Thankfully there have been no serious incidents since. In 1953 Dylan Thomas le...