The area around Covent Garden became synonymous with theatre and opera. The Theatre Royal on Drury Lane is just outside the market area, as is theRoyal Opera House.St Paul's Church, on the west side of Covent Garden market, became known as the Actor's Church and was frequented by the ...
The Royal Opera House is here, English National Opera isn’t far and there are no fewer than thirteen theatres within walking distance of Covent Garden market. The history of Covent Garden’s theatrical traditions Architect Inigo Jones was commissioned by Francis Russell, the Earl of Bedford, to...
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The first night we slept at the market town of St. Neots and the next day arrived at Gt. Brickhill and there I first saw a Surveyor’s chain thrown out. – Mr. Jackson set me to lead the chain –I was eager and in high spirits but not understanding exactly what was to be done ...
Elizabethan London was a lot different from modern London, although it was much more built-up than in previous eras, there were still some surprising contrasts; Covent Garden was a market garden, Islington and Hoxton were just villages and areas like Holborn and Bloomsbury had hospitals built the...
Section of Phoebus Levin's Covent Garden Market (1864).See original image from Wikimedia Commons. In Andrew Marvell 1650s' poem,Bermudas, he wrote that "But apples plants of such a price, No trees could ever bear them twice" (line 23 & 24). It is still a debate whether the ‘apples...
A new civic hub in central Radcliffe, which will bring together a mix of functions at the heart of the town Refurbishment of the market basement and the revamping of market chambers New leisure facilities A secondary school on the Coney Green site A“whole town approach” to housing, bringing...
The first night we slept at the market town of St. Neots and the next day arrived at Gt. Brickhill and there I first saw a Surveyor’s chain thrown out. – Mr. Jackson set me to lead the chain –I was eager and in high spirits but not understanding exactly what was to be done ...
As for Covent Garden, that’s where we had lunch. Site of a public market since 1845, though I expect things have been cleaned up some since then. Not quite as grand as the one in the larger London, but well worth the stroll to look at the shops, and find an eatery. We ate at...