The light was red and the tablecloths checked green, a nod to the bar’s former life as a gambling den. Maude Stanley’s nephew Bertrand Russell, described the Stanleys as full of ‘vigour, good health and good spirits.

Her decision to open a club for young local women in the early 1880s coincides with the demolition of the Five Dials to make way for the Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road development.The studio piano Elton used on his albums can also be heard on hits like Hey Jude, You’re So Vain, Killer Queen and I Don’t Like Mondays. I know exactly where I was when I realised there was something different about Greek Street – a road on the Eastern edge of Soho in London, running from Soho Square down to Shaftesbury Avenue. On 11 December 1966, Elton’s first band, Bluesology, played here as one of two support acts for his rock and roll pianist idol, Little Richard. The series brings together women who have likely, at one point or another, been labeled a ‘bitch’, whether because of their beauty, success, independence, or self-assuredness. It’s really tough to be a business owner in Soho, but if you immerse yourself in the community then you will do well and you will last a lifetime here,” says Martyn Simpson.

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This is the building, now reconstructed internally so that only its outer walls survive, which stands on the plot known as 59 Greek Street, built for Maude Stanley in 1883 and which was to become Virginia Compton’s Theatre Girls’ Club before the end of World War I. And so, at the turn of 1880s, Maude Stanley set in motion the demolition of the buildings already standing at 59 Greek Street and the raising of the new for her girls’ club. Legendary folk music venue Les Cousins used to be downstairs at what’s now Club 49: “Bob Dylan and Paul Simon played there – Les Cousins had a significant hand in the resurgence of folk in the 60s,” says Shrimplin. The Greek Street pubs were as rammed as the Tube in rush hour, but none of that busyness followed us down into The Vault – this is seated drinking only.No one’ she wrote, ‘can tell the difficulty there is in finding work for a woman who has lost her character. The series title BITCHES is a double entendre that speaks to the spirit of play and provocation present in these photographs of remarkable women and surprisingly glamourous dogs. The building rose up across the way and a little down from Greek Street’s post office and the House of Charity at 1 Greek Street, which stands on the boundary of Greek Street and Soho Square.