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Person walking in London Great Windmill Street, near Piccadilly Circus in London

Windmill Theatre

Shaftesbury Avenue

A two minute walk from Piccadilly Circus

London ultra-short walk (19)

In 1931, a wealthy 67-year-old, Laura Henderson, purchased an outdated cinema in Soho with a view to turning it into a theatre.


Unfortunately the theatre was losing huge amounts of money on the regular plays that were shown. So, to beat the competition from larger West End venues, Henderson suggested bringing Parisian-style female nudity to the London stage. British censorship laws at the time insisted that the girls could only appear naked in front of the audience if they stood absolutely motionless. These stationary, artistic poses, styled to look like classic works of sculpture, were a great success and the Windmill Theatre name was soon widely recognized throughout the country.