According to Historic England, a man named Jack Saul even roamed the roads, handing out cards advertising an all-male brothel on Cleveland Street. With this entertainment district came a rise in sex work, and Soho soon nabbed itself the moniker ‘the Meat Rack’.
In the late 1880s, the West End underwent some regeneration: Piccadilly Circus was expanded, and theatres and music halls sprung up around Shaftesbury Avenue. By the beginning of the 19th Century, Soho had become destitute and overcrowded.
