A Soho sign reflective of the area’s historic connections with the film industry may be replaced under refurbishment plans. The Hammer House sign on Wardour Street harkens back to the building’s former use as the home of Hammer Film Productions.

Primarily known for its horror movies put out from the mid-1950s up to the 1970s, Hammer Film Productions moved into its Soho office in the late 1940s, after which point it was renamed Hammer House. While the current sign dates to the 1990s, the Soho Society is requesting it either be retained under plans to refurbish the building or a “facsimile of the original” be installed in its place.

Chris Twaddle of kennedytwaddle architects and designers, which is working on the scheme, said the studio always tries to be as honest to the original as i

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