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13 July 2026

  • 16:5316:53, 13 July 2026 diff hist +1,784 N Criterion Restaurant Created page with "The '''Criterion Restaurant''' at 224 Piccadilly is a Grade I listed restaurant beneath the south side of Piccadilly Circus, whose Byzantine gold mosaic ceiling – designed by Thomas Verity and completed in 1875 – is among the most spectacular Victorian interiors in London. It is also one of the oldest documented gay venues in the city. The entrance is a few steps below pavement level, opening into a long hall of mirrored arches and gilded tiles that has changed..." current
  • 16:5116:51, 13 July 2026 diff hist +1,413 N Regent's Palace Hotel Created page with "The '''Regent's Palace Hotel''' on Glasshouse Street, just off Piccadilly Circus, was one of the largest hotels in Europe when it opened in 1915. For much of the mid-twentieth century its bar was one of the most reliable gay meeting places in central London. The hotel was designed by Henry Tanner and built by J. Lyons & Co. – the same company that operated the Lilypond Corner House a short walk away on Coventry Street. With over a thousand rooms and a..." current
  • 16:5016:50, 13 July 2026 diff hist +2,057 N Lilypond Created page with "The '''Lilypond''' was the nickname given by staff and regulars to the first-floor restaurant of the Lyons Corner House on Coventry Street, just off Piccadilly Circus. From the 1930s it became one of the most important gay meeting places in London – not despite being a brightly lit, respectable chain tea room, but because of it. J. Lyons & Co. opened their Coventry Street Corner House in 1909. It operated on several floors, serving thousands of meals a day at pric..." current
  • 16:3316:33, 13 July 2026 diff hist +4 m Piccadilly Circus 1950s current
  • 16:3216:32, 13 July 2026 diff hist +4 m Piccadilly Circus 1950s
  • 16:2816:28, 13 July 2026 diff hist +4,305 Piccadilly Circus total re-write, introducing Edwardian era, Dilly boys, financed by American money

12 July 2026

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