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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Shaftesbury Avenue
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(London W1) Street running northeast from *Piccadilly Circus, completed in 1886 and designed to improve traffic circulation. It broke through an area of squalid narrow streets, slums of the kind which had prompted Lord *Shaftesbury's zeal in housing reform; its completion the year after his death caused him to be commemorated in its name and in *Eros at its southern end. Six theatres were built along the west side of the street, causing Shaftesbury Avenue to be used as a synonym for West End theatre.
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