Broadwick Street

Broadwick Street, showing theJohn Snowmemorial and pub

Broadwick Street(formerly Broad Street) is a street inSoho,City of Westminster,London.It runs for 0.18 miles (0.29 km) approximately west–east between Marshall Street andWardour Street,crossingBerwick Street.

Broad Street was notorious as the centre of an1854 outbreakofcholera.PhysicianJohn Snowtraced the outbreak toa public water pumpon the street, and disabled the pump. Before this time, the disease was widely thought to be caused by air-borne 'miasma'; Snow's findings showed it to bewater-borne.

A replica pump, together with an explanatory plaque, was erected close to the original location in 1992. The original pump was at the junction of Broad Street and Cambridge Street (today Le xing ton Street), close to the back wall of what today is the 'John Snow'pub.The site is subtly marked with a pinkgranitekerbstone in front of the small wall plaque.

A house on the corner of Broadwick and Marshall streets was the birthplace and childhood home ofWilliam Blake.

The street crosses, or meets, Wardour Street, Duck Lane, Berwick Street, Hopkins Street, Ingestre Place, Poland Street, Le xing ton Street, Dufours Place, Marshall Street andCarnaby Street.

Current businesses on Broadwick Street includeYauatcha,a noted Chinese restaurant.

Current occupants

• No. 6:Agent Provocateur
• Nos. 15–17:Yauatcha
• No. 25:temper soho
• No. 31:itsu
• No. 33:Hearst Corporation
• No. 35:Pret a Manger
• No. 39:John Snowpub
• No. 71:Ooyala
• No. 72: Hearst Corporation

Former occupants

Nos. 48 & 50, Padgett & Braham Ltd. and Wakely & Wheeler Ltd, goldsmiths & silversmiths. Also at the same premises were T & A Wise Ltd. engravers, and The Flutemakers Guild, makers of flutes in precious metals.