Soho Square...

JD enjoying a squat...

Soho Square is a square in Soho, London, England, with a park and garden area at its centre that dates back to 1681. It was originally called King Square after Charles II, whose statue stands in the square. At the centre of the garden, there is a distinctive half-timbered gardener's hut.  According to a blog called - to55er's, "the small mock-Tudor hut in the centre of Soho Square once housed a transformer for the Charing Cross Electric Light Company. Below the hut is an abandoned underground shelter built during the Second World War.  With fears of an imminent invasion the hut was cleverly hidden behind wooden boards painted to look like a mock-Tudor hut."

The square is situated at the centre of a neighborhood, appropriately called Soho, which was grazing farmland until 1536, when it was taken by Henry VIII as a royal park for the Palace of Whitehall. The name "Soho" first appears in the 17th century and most authorities believe that the name derives from a former hunting cry.  This is unlike New York's SoHo district whose name is a blend of "South of Houston."


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