Sketch of street corner by Walter Sickert. Shows a drawing of the junction of Maple Street and Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia, London.
The corner of Cleveland Street and Maple Street. c.1923. Print by Walter Sickert. © The Trustees of the British Museum. (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

On this tour of louche locations, in the area historian Edwin Beresford Chancellor referred to as London’s Old Latin Quarter, you can get acquainted with some of the eccentric and esoteric artists, writers, activists and satanists who lived and worked in the Fitzrovia of yesteryear.

Discover Nina Hamnett, Betty May, Dylan Thomas, Julian Maclaren-Ross, McNeil Whistler, Walter Sickert, Virginia Woolf and George Bernard Shaw.

Artist and writer Clive Jennings has an encyclopedic knowledge of art and artists in Fitzrovia having lived in the district for around thirty years. He is arts editor of both The Fitzrovia News and regularly contributes to the Soho Clarion.  

Jennings studied fine art at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and St Martins School of Art. He had a career in fashion and as an art-dealer, print publisher and curator. He founded the National Print Gallery — and his nom de guerre is “Fitzrovia Flaneur”.

The Sohemian Society, Bohemian Fitzrovia: A guided walk hosted by Clive Jennings. 2.30pm Sunday 28 September 2025. Tickets are £11.00 from here.

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