What is "wardour street"

Usage examples of "wardour street".

As they walked out of the Circus side by side Smiley wished the janitors good night with unusual terseness, and in the pub in Wardour Street he said 'I've been sacked,' and that was all.

Entering Chinatown by one of its three gates Wardour Street on the west, Macclesfield Street on the north, Newport Court on the east I make my way down those loud, busy streets until the place fills my senses, until it reminds me of that other place on the far side of the world.

One of Jamison's men was in evidence some distance down the court, and another at the corner of Wardour Street not far away.

We all paid our bills, and I picked up my groceries, and then the three of us trailed out along Wardour Street.

He climbed into the Bentley and reversed back into the road, swung around a fire truck, into Wardour Street, and into the darkened afternoon.

They were having lunch several weeks later in a vast and deafening Wardour Street restaurant.

In Wardour Street he slowed to a slightly more leisurely pace past the ranks of film production offices and private cinemas until he finally sighted a pile of discarded rubbish awaiting collection, stacked in cartons outside a Greek restaurant.

Harry passed a shop out of whose window, hung with a score of bright brown varnished ducks, came such a strong waft of heat and tastiness that he wanted to stay there and feed on it but the older boy hurried him along, down through Gerrard Street and into Wardour Street where he stopped, looked around with exaggerated circumspection and pulled out a cigarette.

I went to look after a piece of old brocade in Wardour Street and had to bargain for hours for it.

It made me feel even more lonely and despondent, and afterwards, though I am not a lecher, I teetered on the edge of temptation when the girls beckoned from the dark doorways in Wardour Street.