By contrast, Soho thrums like the market town in a children’s picture book; rich with life, locals and a sense of community missing in many rural places.Soho looks the part; with its winding cobble street, wood-panel pubs, and local watering pump. It has the archetypes of a village — the square (Soho and Golden), the church (St. Patricks, St. Annes, Our Lady of Assumption and St Gregory), the local coffee shop (Bar Italia, established 1949) the vegetable market on Berwick Street, two local newspapers – The Westminster Extra and The Soho Times, and a local, The French House, where landlady Lesley Lewis knows everyone.
