Fletcher Buildings, WC2B

Fletcher Buildings is sited on Martlett Court.

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The Underground Map Whitehall, SW1A Added: 8 Dec 2020 00:24 GMT	Othello takes a bow On 1 November 1604, William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello was presented for the first time, at The Palace of Whitehall. The palace was the main residence of the English monarchs in London from 1530 until 1698. Seven years to the day, Shakespeare’s romantic comedy The Tempest was also presented for the first time, and also at the Palace of Whitehall. Reply
Linda Webb Hungerford Stairs Added: 27 Sep 2021 05:51 GMT	Hungerford Stairs In 1794 my ancestor, George Webb, Clay Pipe Maker, lived in Hungerford Stairs, Strand. Source: Wakefields Merchant & Tradesmens General Directory London Westminster 1794 Source: Hungerford Stairs Reply
Fumblina Whitfield Street, W1T Added: 21 Feb 2023 11:39 GMT	Error on 1800 map numbering for John Street The 1800 map of Whitfield Street (17 zoom) has an error in the numbering shown on the map. The houses are numbered up the right hand side of John Street and Upper John Street to #47 and then are numbered down the left hand side until #81 BUT then continue from 52-61 instead of 82-91. Reply
Roy Batham Covent Garden Added: 7 Jan 2022 07:17 GMT	Smithy in Longacre John Burris 1802-1848 Listed 1841 census as Burroughs was a blacksmith, address just given as Longacre. Source: Batham/Wiseman - Family Tree Reply
Reg Carr Elstree Street, N1C Added: 10 Feb 2021 12:11 GMT	Campbellite Meeting In 1848 the Campbellites (Disciples of Christ) met in Elstree Street, where their congregation was presided over by a pastor named John Black. Their appointed evangelist at the time was called David King, who later became the Editor of the British Millennial Harbinger. The meeting room was visited in July 1848 by Dr John Thomas, who spoke there twice on his two-year ’mission’ to Britain. Reply
Jeff Owen Owen Street, EC1V Added: 20 Mar 2021 16:18 GMT	Owen’s School Owen Street is the site of Owen’s Boys’ School. The last school was built in 1881 and was demolished in the early 1990s to make way for the development which stand there today. It was a “Direct Grant” grammar school and was founded in 1613 by Dame Alice Owen. What is now “Owen’s Fields” was the playground between the old school and the new girls’ school (known then as “Dames Alice Owen’s School” or simply “DAOS”). The boys’ school had the top two floors of that building for their science labs. The school moved to Potters Bar in Hertfordshire in 1971 and is now one of the top State comprehensive schools in the country. The old building remained in use as an accountancy college and taxi-drivers’ “knowledge” school until it was demolished. The new building is now part of City and Islington College. Owen’s was a fine school. I should know because I attended there from 1961 to 1968. Reply
Scott Hatton Blackmoor Street, WC2B Added: 11 Sep 2020 19:47 GMT	Millions Of Rats In Busy London The Daily Mail on 14 April 1903 reported "MILLIONS OF RATS IN BUSY LONDON" A rat plague, unprecedented in the annals of London, has broken out on the north side of the Strand. The streets principally infested are Catherine street, Drury lane, Blackmore street, Clare Market and Russell street. Something akin to a reign of terror prevails among the inhabitants after nightfall. Women refuse to pass along Blackmore street and the lower parts of Stanhope street after dusk, for droves of rats perambulate the roadways and pavements, and may be seen running along the window ledges of the empty houses awaiting demolition by the County Council in the Strand to Holborn improvement scheme. The rats, indeed, have appeared in almost-incredible numbers. "There are millions of them," said one shopkeeper, and his statement was supported by other residents. The unwelcome visitors have been evicted from their old haunts by the County Council housebreakers, and are now busily in search of new homes. The Gaiety Restaurant has been the greatest sufferer. Rats have invaded the premises in such force that the managers have had to close the large dining room on the first floor and the grill rooms on the ground floor and in the basement. Those three spacious halls which have witnessed many as semblages of theatre-goers are now qui:e deserted. Behind the wainscot of the bandstand in the grillroom is a large mound of linen shreds. This represents 1728 serviettes carried theee by the rats. In the bar the removal of a panel disclosed the astonishing fact that the rats have dragged for a distance of seven or eight yards some thirty or forty beer and wine bottles and stacked them in such a fashion as to make comfortable sleeping places. Mr Williams. the manager of the restaurant, estimates that the rats have destroyed L200 worth of linen. Formerly the Gaiety Restaurant dined 2000 persons daily; no business whatever is now done in this direction. Reply
Bruce McTavish Lambeth North Added: 11 Mar 2021 11:37 GMT	Kennington Road Lambeth North station was opened as Kennington Road and then Westminster Bridge Road before settling on its final name. It has a wonderful Leslie Green design. Reply
Mike Elia Street, N1 Added: 28 Feb 2023 18:09 GMT	6 Elia Street When I was young I lived in 6 Elia Street. At the end of the garden there was a garage owned by Initial Laundries which ran from an access in Quick Street all the way up to the back of our garden. The fire exit to the garage was a window leading into our garden. 6 Elia Street was owned by Initial Laundry. Reply
MCNALLY Blackfriars Added: 17 May 2021 09:42 GMT	Blackfriars (1959 - 1965) I lived in Upper Ground from 1959 to 1964 I was 6 years old my parents Vince and Kitty run the Pub The Angel on the corner of Upper Ground and Bodies Bridge. I remember the ceiling of the cellar was very low and almost stretched the length of Bodies Bridge. The underground trains run directly underneath the pub. If you were down in the cellar when a train was coming it was quite frightening Reply
Scott Hatton Savile Row, W1S Added: 30 Jan 2023 11:28 GMT	The Beatles on a London rooftop The Beatles’ rooftop concert took place on the rooftop of the Apple Corps building in London. It was their final public performance as a band and was unannounced, attracting a crowd of onlookers. The concert lasted for 42 minutes and included nine songs. The concert is remembered as a seminal moment in the history of rock music and remains one of the most famous rock performances of all time. Reply
Jessie Doring Tisbury Court, W1D Added: 22 Feb 2021 04:33 GMT	Tisbury Court Jazz Bar Jazz Bar opened in Tisbury Court by 2 Australians. Situated in underground basement. Can not remember how long it opened for. Reply
Tom Blackfriars Added: 21 May 2021 23:07 GMT	Blackfriars What is, or was, Bodies Bridge? Reply
Richard Roques Hungerford Stairs Added: 21 Jan 2021 16:53 GMT	Buckingham Street residents Here in Buckingham Street lived Samuel Pepys the diarist, Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling Reply
Jude Allen Orange Street, WC2H Added: 29 Jul 2021 07:53 GMT	Bra top I jave a jewelled item of clothong worn by a revie girl. It is red with diamante straps. Inside it jas a label Bermans Revue 16 Orange Street but I cannot find any info online about the revue only that 16 Orange Street used to be a theatre. Does any one know about the revue. I would be intesrested to imagine the wearer of the article and her London life. Reply

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Albert Mews, SW7 Added: 26 Mar 2023 14:50 GMT	Albert Mews It is not a gargoyle over the entrance arch to Albert Mews, it is a likeness of Prince Albert himself. Reply
Christine D Elliott Blockhouse Street, SE15 Added: 20 Mar 2023 15:52 GMT	The Blute Family My grandparents, Frederick William Blute & Alice Elizabeth Blute nee: Warnham lived at 89 Blockhouse Street Deptford from around 1917.They had six children. 1. Alice Maragret Blute (my mother) 2. Frederick William Blute 3. Charles Adrian Blute 4. Violet Lillian Blute 5. Donald Blute 6. Stanley Vincent Blute (Lived 15 months). I lived there with my family from 1954 (Birth) until 1965 when we were re-housed for regeneration to the area. I attended Ilderton Road School. Very happy memories of that time. Reply
Pearl Foster Dukes Place, EC3A Added: 20 Mar 2023 12:22 GMT	Dukes Place, EC3A Until his death in 1767, Daniel Nunes de Lara worked from his home in Dukes Street as a Pastry Cook. It was not until much later the street was renamed Dukes Place. Daniel and his family attended the nearby Bevis Marks synagogue for Sephardic Jews. The Ashkenazi Great Synagogue was established in Duke Street, which meant Daniel’s business perfectly situated for his occupation as it allowed him to cater for both congregations. Reply
Dr Paul Flewers Hawthorne Close, N1 Added: 9 Mar 2023 18:12 GMT	Some Brief Notes on Hawthorne Close / Hawthorne Street My great-grandparents lived in the last house on the south side of Hawthorne Street, no 13, and my grandmother Alice Knopp and her brothers and sisters grew up there. Alice Knopp married Charles Flewers, from nearby Hayling Road, and moved to Richmond, Surrey, where I was born. Leonard Knopp married Esther Gutenberg and lived there until the street was demolished in the mid-1960s, moving on to Tottenham. Uncle Len worked in the fur trade, then ran a pet shop in, I think, the Kingsland Road. From the back garden, one could see the almshouses in the Balls Pond Road. There was an ink factory at the end of the street, which I recall as rather malodorous. Reply
KJH Andover Road, N7 Added: 7 Mar 2023 17:14 GMT	Andover Road, N7 (1939 - 1957) My aunt, Doris nee Curtis (aka Jo) and her husband John Hawkins (aka Jack) ran a small general stores at 92 Andover Road (N7). I have found details in the 1939 register but don’t know how long before that it was opened.He died in 1957. In the 1939 register he is noted as being an ARP warden for Islington warden Reply
The Queens Head Added: 2 Mar 2023 13:50 GMT	The Queens Head Queens Head demolished and a NISA supermarket and flats built in its place. Reply
Mike Elia Street, N1 Added: 28 Feb 2023 18:09 GMT	6 Elia Street When I was young I lived in 6 Elia Street. At the end of the garden there was a garage owned by Initial Laundries which ran from an access in Quick Street all the way up to the back of our garden. The fire exit to the garage was a window leading into our garden. 6 Elia Street was owned by Initial Laundry. Reply
Fumblina Whitfield Street, W1T Added: 21 Feb 2023 11:39 GMT	Error on 1800 map numbering for John Street The 1800 map of Whitfield Street (17 zoom) has an error in the numbering shown on the map. The houses are numbered up the right hand side of John Street and Upper John Street to #47 and then are numbered down the left hand side until #81 BUT then continue from 52-61 instead of 82-91. Reply

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101 The Strand was an art school from 1750 until 1806.

101 Strand, WC2R This shop was one of the first in London to have gas lighting fitted.

101 Strand, WC2R

Ackermann’s Rudolph Ackermann (20 April 1764 in Stollberg, Saxony – 30 March 1834 in Finchley) was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman.

Ackermann’s

British Museum British Museum was a station on the Central line, located in Holborn and taking its name from the nearby British Museum in Great Russell Street.

British Museum

Houghton Street (1906) A greengrocer’s on the corner of Houghton Street and Clare Market (behind The Strand) in 1906 just before demolition.

Houghton Street (1906)

Leicester Square Leicester Square, while indeed a square, is also the name for a tube station.

Leicester Square

Lisle’s Tennis Court Lisle’s Tennis Court was a building off Portugal Street in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London.

Lisle’s Tennis Court

St Giles St Giles is a district of central London, at the southern tip of the London Borough of Camden.

St Giles

The 1860s map of London "Stanford’s Library Map of London and its Suburbs" was published in 1862

The 1860s map of London

Weston’s Music Hall Weston’s Music Hall was a music hall and theatre that opened in 1857. In 1906, the theatre became known as the Holborn Empire.

Weston’s Music Hall

NEARBY STREETS

Adam Street, WC2N Adam Street is named after John and Robert Adam, who built the Adelphi development in the 1760s.

Adam Street, WC2N

Africa House, WC2A Residential block

Africa House, WC2A

Africa House, WC2B Africa House is a block on Kingsway.

Africa House, WC2B

Agar Street, WC2N Agar Street is named after George Agar, who built the street in the 1830s with John Ponsonby, Earl of Bessborough

Agar Street, WC2N

Aldwych House, WC2B Aldwych House is located on Aldwych.

Aldwych House, WC2B

Aldwych, WC2B The name Aldwych derives from the Old English eald and wic meaning ’old trading town’ or ’old marketplace’; the name was later applied to the street and district.

Aldwych, WC2B

Arab Press House, WC1V Arab Press House is located on High Holborn.

Arab Press House, WC1V

Aria House, WC1V Aria House is located on Newton Street.

Aria House, WC1V

Arne Street, WC2E Arne Street was named after the 18th century composer Thomas Arne, who was born near here.

Arne Street, WC2E

Artist House, WC1A Artist House is sited on Little Russell Street.

Artist House, WC1A

Arundel Street, WC2R Arundel Street runs from the Strand to Temple Place.

Arundel Street, WC2R

Australia House, WC2B Australia House can be found on Strand.

Australia House, WC2B

Aviation House, WC2B Aviation House is a building on Kingsway.

Aviation House, WC2B

Bainbridge Street, WC2H Bainbridge Street takes its name from Henry Bainbridge, a local resident in the 17th century.

Bainbridge Street, WC2H

Banbury Court, WC2E Banbury Court is named for Nicholas Knollys, 3rd Earl of Banbury, who owned a house here called Banbury House.

Banbury Court, WC2E

Barter Street, WC1A Barter Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Barter Street, WC1A

Beacon House, WC2B Beacon House is a block on Kingsway.

Beacon House, WC2B

Bear Street, WC2H Bear Street is a streetname with two possible derivations.

Bear Street, WC2H

Beaumont Buildings, WC2B Beaumont Buildings is located on Martlett Court.

Beaumont Buildings, WC2B

Beaumont Buildings, WC2E Beaumont Buildings is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Beaumont Buildings, WC2E

Bedford Chambers, WC2E Bedford Chambers is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Bedford Chambers, WC2E

Bedford Street, WC2E Bedford Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Bedford Street, WC2E

Bedford Street, WC2R Bedford Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2R postal area.

Bedford Street, WC2R

Bedfordbury, WC2N Bedfordbury is one of the streets of London in the WC2N postal area.

Bedfordbury, WC2N

Betterton House, WC2H Betterton House is located on Betterton Street.

Betterton House, WC2H

Betterton Street, WC2E Betterton Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Betterton Street, WC2E

Blackmoor Street, WC2B Blackmoor Street was in the Drury Lane slum.

Blackmoor Street, WC2B

Bloomsbury Street, WC1A Bloomsbury Street runs from Gower Street in the north to the junction of New Oxford Street and Shaftesbury Avenue in the south.

Bloomsbury Street, WC1A

Bow Street, WC2B Bow Street was built in the shape of a bow between 1633 and 1677.

Bow Street, WC2B

Bow Street, WC2E Bow Street was first developed by Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford in 1633.

Bow Street, WC2E

Brettenham House, WC2R Brettenham House is a block on Savoy Street.

Brettenham House, WC2R

Broad Court, WC2E Broad Court is an alleyway parallel with Long Acre.

Broad Court, WC2E

Bruce House, WC2B Bruce House is sited on Kemble Street.

Bruce House, WC2B

Brydges Place, WC2N Brydges Place replaced Taylor’s Buildings in 1904 when the Colloseum was built.

Brydges Place, WC2N

Bucknall Street, WC2H Bucknall Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Bucknall Street, WC2H

Bull Inn Court, WC2R Bull Inn Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2R postal area.

Bull Inn Court, WC2R

Burleigh Street, WC2R Burleigh Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Burleigh Street, WC2R

Cambridge Circus, WC2H Cambridge Circus is the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road.

Cambridge Circus, WC2H

Carey Street, WC2A Carey Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Carey Street, WC2A

Carriage Hall, WC2E Carriage Hall is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Carriage Hall, WC2E

Carting Lane, WC2R Carting Lane is thought to be named after the carts that brought goods to and from the wharf formerly located here.

Carting Lane, WC2R

Castlewood House, WC1A Residential block

Castlewood House, WC1A

Catherine Street, WC2B Catherine Street runs from Russell Street in the north to Aldwych in the south.

Catherine Street, WC2B

Cecil Court, WC2N Cecil Court is a pedestrian street with Victorian shop-frontages.

Cecil Court, WC2N

Central Arcade, WC2E Central Arcade is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Central Arcade, WC2E

Centre Point, WC2H Centre Point is a controversial 1960s-built tower block.

Centre Point, WC2H

Chandos Place, WC2R Chandos Place is one of the streets of London in the WC2N postal area.

Chandos Place, WC2R

Charing Cross Mansions, WC2H Charing Cross Mansions is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Charing Cross Mansions, WC2H

Charing Cross Road, WC2H Charing Cross Road is a street running immediately north of St Martin-in-the-Fields to St Giles Circus.

Charing Cross Road, WC2H

Ching Court, WC2H Ching Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Ching Court, WC2H

Clare Market, WC2A Clare Market is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Clare Market, WC2A

Clare Market, WC2E This is a street in the WC2E postcode area

Clare Market, WC2E

Clement House, WC2B Clement House is located on Aldwych.

Clement House, WC2B

Clement House, WC2R Clement House is a block on Strand.

Clement House, WC2R

Clement’s Inn, WC2R Clement’s Inn is a road in the WC2R postcode area

Clement’s Inn, WC2R

Columbia House, WC2B Columbia House is a block on Aldwych.

Columbia House, WC2B

Commonwealth House, WC1V Commonwealth House is a block on New Oxford Street.

Commonwealth House, WC1V

Congress House, WC1B Congress House can be found on Great Russell Street.

Congress House, WC1B

Connaught House, WC2A Connaught House can be found on Aldwych.

Connaught House, WC2A

Connaught House, WC2B Connaught House is located on Aldwych.

Connaught House, WC2B

Coptic Street, WC2H Coptic Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Coptic Street, WC2H

Covent Garden, WC2E Covent Garden, is the name of a district, but also the name of the central square which formerly hosted a fruit-and-vegetable market.

Covent Garden, WC2E

Cowdray House, WC2A Cowdray House is a building on Portugal Street.

Cowdray House, WC2A

Cranbourn Street, WC2H Cranbourne Street was named after local landowner the Earl of Salisbury, Viscount Cranbourn (Cranbourne) after the town in Dorset.

Cranbourn Street, WC2H

Crown Court, WC2E Crown Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Crown Court, WC2E

Crystal Wharf, WC2B A street within the WC2B postcode

Crystal Wharf, WC2B

Denmark Street, WC2H Denmark Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Denmark Street, WC2H

Devereux Court, WC2R Devereux Court is a location in London.

Devereux Court, WC2R

Drury Lane, WC2B Named from Sir William Drury, Knight of the Garter in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, who owned land on its site.

Drury Lane, WC2B

Dryden Street, WC2B Dryden Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Dryden Street, WC2B

Dudley Court, WC2H Dudley Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Dudley Court, WC2H

Dyott Street, WC1A Dyott Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Dyott Street, WC1A

Earlham Street, WC2H Earlham Street is one of the spokes leading off of Seven Dials.

Earlham Street, WC2H

Earnshaw Street, WC2H Earnshaw Street was at first called Arthur Street.

Earnshaw Street, WC2H

Endeavour House, WC2H Endeavour House is a block on Shaftesbury Avenue.

Endeavour House, WC2H

Endell Street, WC2H Endell Street, originally known as Belton Street, is a street that runs from High Holborn in the north to Long Acre and Bow Street in the south.

Endell Street, WC2H

Essex Street, WC2R Essex Street is a location in London.

Essex Street, WC2R

Excel Court, WC2H Excel Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Excel Court, WC2H

Exchange Court, WC2R Exchange Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2R postal area.

Exchange Court, WC2R

Exeter Street, WC2R Exeter Street is a road in the WC2R postcode area

Exeter Street, WC2R

Fairgate House, WC1A Fairgate House is a block on New Oxford Street.

Fairgate House, WC1A

Flichcroft Street, WC2H Flichcroft Street is a road in the WC2H postcode area

Flichcroft Street, WC2H

Flitcroft Street, WC2H Flitcroft Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Flitcroft Street, WC2H

Floral Court, WC2E Floral Court is a location in London.

Floral Court, WC2E

Floral Street, WC2E Floral Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Floral Street, WC2E

Garrick Street, WC2N Garrick Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Garrick Street, WC2N

Garrick Yard, WC2E Garrick Yard, together with the more familiar Garrick Street to the northeast of here, both took their names from the Garrick Club which commemorates the famous 18th century actor, David Garrick.

Garrick Yard, WC2E

Gate Street, WC2A Gate Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Gate Street, WC2A

Gibraltar House, WC2R Gibraltar House is a block on Strand.

Gibraltar House, WC2R

Gladstone House, WC2R Gladstone House is a block on Arundel Street.

Gladstone House, WC2R

Grape Street, WC2H Grape Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Grape Street, WC2H

Great Newport Street, WC2H Great Newport Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Great Newport Street, WC2H

Great Queen Street, WC2B Great Queen Street is a continuation of Long Acre from Drury Lane to Kingsway.

Great Queen Street, WC2B

Green Dragon House, WC2B Green Dragon House is a block on Stukeley Street.

Green Dragon House, WC2B

Hanover Place, WC2E Hanover Place is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Hanover Place, WC2E

Heathcock Court, WC2E Heathcock Court runs north off Strand.

Heathcock Court, WC2E

Henrietta Street, WC2E Henrietta Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Henrietta Street, WC2E

High Holborn, WC2B High Holborn is a road which is the highest point in the City of London - 22 metres above sea level.

High Holborn, WC2B

Holborn Tower, WC1V Holborn Tower is a building on High Holborn.

Holborn Tower, WC1V

Hop Gardens, WC2N Hop Gardens is one of the streets of London in the WC2N postal area.

Hop Gardens, WC2N

Houghton Square, WC2B Houghton Square is a road in the SW9 postcode area

Houghton Square, WC2B

Houghton Street, WC2A Houghton Street is a street which has been ’demoted’ over time.

Houghton Street, WC2A

Howard Street, WC2R Howard Street ran from Surrey Street to Arundel Street until 1974.

Howard Street, WC2R

Hudson House, WC2E Hudson House is a block on Tavistock Street.

Hudson House, WC2E

Imperial House, WC2B Imperial House is a block on Kingsway.

Imperial House, WC2B

India House, WC2B India House is a block on Aldwych.

India House, WC2B

India Place, WC2B India Place is a small alleyway leading from Aldwych.

India Place, WC2B

Irving Street, WC2H Irving Street is named after Henry Irving, the popular Victorian actor.

Irving Street, WC2H

Isis House, WC1A Isis House is a building on New Oxford Street.

Isis House, WC1A

James Street, WC2E James Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

James Street, WC2E

Jebsen House, WC2H Jebsen House is a block on Mercer Street.

Jebsen House, WC2H

Jubilee Market, WC2E Jubilee Market is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Jubilee Market, WC2E

Kean Street, WC2B Kean Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Kean Street, WC2B

Keeley Street, WC2B Keeley Street has a dual history

Keeley Street, WC2B

Kemble Street, WC2B Kemble Street is a road in the WC2B postcode area

Kemble Street, WC2B

King Street, WC2E King Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

King Street, WC2E

King’s Building, WC2R King’s Building is a block on Strand.

King’s Building, WC2R

Kingsway, WC2A Kingsway is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Kingsway, WC2A

Kingsway, WC2B This is a street in the WC2A postcode area

Kingsway, WC2B

Lakatos Building, WC2A Lakatos Building is a block on Portugal Street.

Lakatos Building, WC2A

Lancaster Place, WC2R Lancaster Place is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Lancaster Place, WC2R

Langley Court, WC2E Langley Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Langley Court, WC2E

Langley House, WC2E Langley House is a building on Long Acre.

Langley House, WC2E

Langley Street, WC2H Langley Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Langley Street, WC2H

Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2A Lincoln’s Inn Fields is the largest public square in London, laid out in the 1630s under the initiative of the speculative builder William Newton.

Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2A

Lionel Robbins Building, WC2A Lionel Robbins Building is sited on Portugal Street.

Lionel Robbins Building, WC2A

Litchfield Street, WC2H Litchfield Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Litchfield Street, WC2H

Little Newport Street, WC2H Little Newport Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Little Newport Street, WC2H

Little Turnstile, WC2A Little Turnstile is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area.

Little Turnstile, WC2A

Long Acre, WC2E Long Acre is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Long Acre, WC2E

Macklin Street, WC2B Macklin Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Macklin Street, WC2B

Maiden Lane, WC2E Maiden Lane runs from Bedford Street in the west to Southampton Street in the east.

Maiden Lane, WC2E

Maidstone House, WC2H Maidstone House is sited on Mercer Street.

Maidstone House, WC2H

Maple Leaf Walk, WC2R Maple Leaf Walk is a road in the SW11 postcode area

Maple Leaf Walk, WC2R

Market Building, WC2E Market Building is a block on Covent Garden Piazza.

Market Building, WC2E

Marlborough House, WC2H Marlborough House is a block on Earlham Street.

Marlborough House, WC2H

Martlett Court, WC2E Martlett Court is a road in the WC2B postcode area

Martlett Court, WC2E

May’s Court, WC2N May’s Court is a road in the WC2N postcode area

May’s Court, WC2N

Melbourne Place, WC2B Melbourne Place is a road in the WC2B postcode area

Melbourne Place, WC2B

Mercer Street, WC2H Mercer Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Mercer Street, WC2H

Monmouth Street, WC2H Monmouth Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Monmouth Street, WC2H

Montreal Place, WC2R Montreal Place is a road in the WC2R postcode area

Montreal Place, WC2R

Museum House, WC1A Museum House is a block on Museum Street.

Museum House, WC1A

Museum Street, WC1A Museum Street is so-named since it approaches the main entrance of the British Museum.

Museum Street, WC1A

Neal Street, WC2H Neal Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Neal Street, WC2H

Neals Yard, WC2H Neals Yard is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Neals Yard, WC2H

New Academic Building, WC2A New Academic Building is located on Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

New Academic Building, WC2A

New Compton Street, WC2H New Compton Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

New Compton Street, WC2H

New Oxford Street, WC1A New Oxford Street was built in 1840 to ease congestion in St Giles High Street.

New Oxford Street, WC1A

New Oxford Street, WC2H New Oxford Street is a road in the WC2H postcode area

New Oxford Street, WC2H

New Row, WC2E New Row is one of the streets of London in the WC2N postal area.

New Row, WC2E

New Square Passage, WC2A This is a street in the WC2A postcode area

New Square Passage, WC2A

Newport Court, WC2H Newport Court was laid out approximately on the site of the courtyard of Newport House.

Newport Court, WC2H

Newport Place, W1D Newport Place was named after Mountjoy Blount, Earl of Newport (Isle of Wight), who owned a house on Newport Street in the 17th century.

Newport Place, W1D

Newton Street, WC1V Newton Street is named for Isaac Newton, scientist and mathematician.

Newton Street, WC1V

Norfolk Street, WC2R Norfolk Street ran from the Strand in the north to the River Thames and, after the Victoria Embankment was built (1865–1870), to what is now Temple Place.

Norfolk Street, WC2R

Norman House, WC2R Norman House can be found on Strand.

Norman House, WC2R

North East Wing Bush House, WC2R Residential block

North East Wing Bush House, WC2R

North West Wing Bush House, WC2R Residential block

North West Wing Bush House, WC2R

Nottingham Court, WC2H Nottingham Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Nottingham Court, WC2H

Odhams Walk, WC2H Odhams Walk is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Odhams Walk, WC2H

Old Building, WC2A Old Building is a building on Houghton Street.

Old Building, WC2A

Orion House, WC2H Orion House is a block on Upper St Martin’s Lane.

Orion House, WC2H

Parker Mews, WC2B Parker Mews is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Parker Mews, WC2B

Parker Street, WC2B Parker Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Parker Street, WC2B

Parker Tower, WC2B Parker Tower is a block on Parker Street.

Parker Tower, WC2B

Parnell House, WC1 Parnell House is a block on Streatham Street.

Parnell House, WC1

Parnell House, WC1A Parnell House is a block on Streatham Street.

Parnell House, WC1A

Penley Court, WC2R Angel Court was renamed as Penley Court in 1937.

Penley Court, WC2R

Phoenix House, WC2H Phoenix House is sited on Phoenix Street.

Phoenix House, WC2H

Phoenix Street, WC2H Phoenix Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Phoenix Street, WC2H

Portsmouth Street, WC2A Portsmouth Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Portsmouth Street, WC2A

Portugal Street, WC2A Portugal Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Portugal Street, WC2A

Queen’s Building, WC2R Queen’s Building is sited on Grange Court.

Queen’s Building, WC2R

Queens House, WC2A Queens House is a block on Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

Queens House, WC2A

Rose Street, WC2N Rose Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Rose Street, WC2N

Royal Opera House, WC2E Royal Opera House is a block on Bow Street.

Royal Opera House, WC2E

Russell Chambers, WC2E Russell Chambers is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Russell Chambers, WC2E

Russell Street, WC2E Russell Street is a road in the WC2E postcode area

Russell Street, WC2E

Sardinia House, WC2A Sardinia House can be found on Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

Sardinia House, WC2A

Sardinia Street, WC2A Sardinia Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Sardinia Street, WC2A

Sardinia Street, WC2B Sardinia Street, formerly Duke Street, was a street that ran from Prince’s Street in the south to the western side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields in the north.

Sardinia Street, WC2B

Savoy Court, WC2R Savoy Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2R postal area.

Savoy Court, WC2R

Savoy Hill, WC2R Savoy Hill is located at a site originally called Savoy Manor.

Savoy Hill, WC2R

Savoy House, WC2R Savoy House is a block on Tweezers Alley.

Savoy House, WC2R

Savoy Street, WC2R Savoy Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Savoy Street, WC2R

Savoy Street, WC2R Savoy Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2R postal area.

Savoy Street, WC2R

Savoy Way, WC2R Savoy Way is located on the former site of the Savoy Palace, built for Peter II, Count of Savoy in 1245.

Savoy Way, WC2R

Serle Street, WC2A Serle Street is a road in the WC2A postcode area

Serle Street, WC2A

Seven Dials, WC2H Seven Dials was built on the site of the Cock-and-Pie Fields, named for a nearby inn.

Seven Dials, WC2H

Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H Shaftesbury Avenue was named after Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Victorian politician and philanthropist.

Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H

Sheffield Street, WC2A Sheffield Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Sheffield Street, WC2A

Shelton Street, WC2E Shelton Street is a road in the WC2B postcode area

Shelton Street, WC2E

Shelton Street, WC2H Shelton Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Shelton Street, WC2H

Sheridan Buildings, WC2B Sheridan Buildings is a block on Martlett Court.

Sheridan Buildings, WC2B

Shorts Gardens, WC2H Shorts Gardens is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Shorts Gardens, WC2H

Slingsby Place, WC2E Slingsby Place is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Slingsby Place, WC2E

Somerset House, WC2R Somerset House is a block on Strand.

Somerset House, WC2R

Sounding Alley, WC2H Sounding Alley is a road in the E3 postcode area

Sounding Alley, WC2H

South East Wing Bush House, WC2B Residential block

South East Wing Bush House, WC2B

Southampton Row, WC1V Southampton Row is a road in the WC1V postcode area

Southampton Row, WC1V

Southampton Street, WC2E Southampton Street - named for Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton and landowner.

Southampton Street, WC2E

Southampton Street, WC2E Southampton Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2R postal area.

Southampton Street, WC2E

St Clement’s Building, WC2A St Clement’s Building is a block on Clare Market.

St Clement’s Building, WC2A

St Clement’s Passage, WC2A St Clement’s Passage is a road in the WC2A postcode area

St Clement’s Passage, WC2A

St Clements Lane, WC2A St Clements Lane is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

St Clements Lane, WC2A

St George’s House, WC1A St George’s House is a block on Coptic Street.

St George’s House, WC1A

St Giles High Street, WC2H St Giles High Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

St Giles High Street, WC2H

St Giles House, WC2B Residential block

St Giles House, WC2B

St Giles Square, WC2H St Giles Square is a modern piazza-style development.

St Giles Square, WC2H

St Martins Court, WC2H St Martins Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2N postal area.

St Martins Court, WC2H

St Martins Lane, WC2N St Martins Lane runs up to Seven Dials from St Martin’s-in-the-Fields.

St Martins Lane, WC2N

St. Giles Square, WC2H St. Giles Square is a location in London.

St. Giles Square, WC2H

Stacey Street, WC2H Stacey Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Stacey Street, WC2H

Stedham Place, WC2H Stedham Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Stedham Place, WC2H

Strand Bridge House, WC2 Strand Bridge House is a block on Strand.

Strand Bridge House, WC2

Strand Bridge House, WC2R Strand Bridge House is a block on Strand.

Strand Bridge House, WC2R

Strand Building, WC2R Strand Building is a block on Strand.

Strand Building, WC2R

Strand Lane, WC2R Strand Lane is a road in the WC2R postcode area

Strand Lane, WC2R

Strand Underpass, WC2R Strand Underpass is a road in the WC2R postcode area

Strand Underpass, WC2R

Strand, WC2R Strand is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Strand, WC2R

Strand, WC2R Strand, as it nears the Aldwych, is home to many London theatres.

Strand, WC2R

Streatham Street, WC1A Streatham Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Streatham Street, WC1A

Stukeley Street, WC2B Stukeley Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Stukeley Street, WC2B

Surrey Street, WC2R Surrey Street was built on land once occupied by Arundel House and its gardens.

Surrey Street, WC2R

Tavistock Street, WC2B Tavistock Street is a road in the WC2B postcode area

Tavistock Street, WC2B

Temple House, WC2R Temple House is sited on Tweezers Alley.

Temple House, WC2R

Temple Place, WC2R Temple Place forms a crescent behind the Embankment Gardens.

Temple Place, WC2R

The Arcade, WC2B The Arcade is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

The Arcade, WC2B

The Australia Centre, WC2B The Australia Centre is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

The Australia Centre, WC2B

The Edmund J. Safra Fountain Court, WC2R The Edmund J. Safra Fountain Court is a road in the WC2R postcode area

The Edmund J. Safra Fountain Court, WC2R

The Macadam Building Street, WC2R The Macadam Building Street is a location in London.

The Macadam Building Street, WC2R

The Market Piazza, WC2E The Market Piazza is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

The Market Piazza, WC2E

The Market The Piazza, WC2E The Market The Piazza is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

The Market The Piazza, WC2E

The Market, WC2E The Market is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

The Market, WC2E

The Piazza, WC2E The Piazza is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

The Piazza, WC2E

Thomas More Building, WC2A Thomas More Building is a building on Strand.

Thomas More Building, WC2A

Thomas Neal Centre, WC2H Thomas Neal Centre is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Thomas Neal Centre, WC2H

Tonbridge House, WC2H Tonbridge House is a block on Mercer Street.

Tonbridge House, WC2H

Tower Court, WC2H Tower Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Tower Court, WC2H

Tower House, WC2E Tower House is a block on Southampton Street.

Tower House, WC2E

Tower House, WC2R Tower House is located on Southampton Street.

Tower House, WC2R

Tower Street, WC2H Tower Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Tower Street, WC2H

Upper St Martin’s Lane, WC2H This is a street in the WC2H postcode area

Upper St Martin’s Lane, WC2H

Vale Royal House, WC2H Vale Royal House is a block on Charing Cross Road.

Vale Royal House, WC2H

Vere Street, WC2B Vere Street was a street in the Lincoln’s Inn Fields area

Vere Street, WC2B

Victoria Embankment, WC2R Victoria Embankment runs from the Houses of Parliament to Blackfriars Bridge.

Victoria Embankment, WC2R

Victoria House, WC2B Victoria House is a block on Strand.

Victoria House, WC2B

Waterman House, WC2 Waterman House is a block on Kingsway.

Waterman House, WC2

Waterman House, WC2B Waterman House is sited on Kingsway.

Waterman House, WC2B

Wellington House, WC2R Wellington House is a block on Strand.

Wellington House, WC2R

Wellington Street, WC2E Wellington Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Wellington Street, WC2E

Wellington Terrace, WC2E Wellington Terrace is a street in Paddington.

Wellington Terrace, WC2E

West Central Street, WC2H West Central Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

West Central Street, WC2H

West Street, WC2H West Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

West Street, WC2H

Weston House, WC1V Weston House is located on High Holborn.

Weston House, WC1V

Whetstone Park, WC2A Whetstone Park is a road in the WC2A postcode area

Whetstone Park, WC2A

Wild Court, WC2B Wild Court leads west from the Kingsway.

Wild Court, WC2B

Wild Street, WC2B Wild Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Wild Street, WC2B

Willoughby Street, WC1B Willoughby Street was formerly known as both Vine Street and Wooburn Street.

Willoughby Street, WC1B

Wren House, Wren House is a building on Milford Lane

Wren House,

Wren House, WC2 Wren House is a block on Milford Lane.

Wren House, WC2

Wren House, WC2R Wren House is a building on Milford Lane.

Wren House, WC2R

Wych Street, WC2R Wych Street was near where Australia House now stands on Aldwych - it ran west from the church of St Clement Danes on the Strand to a point at the southern end of Drury Lane.

Wych Street, WC2R

NEARBY PUBS

All Bar One Holborn This is a bar which was still existing in 2018.

Circus (restaurant) Circus is a restaurant on Endell Street.

Circus (restaurant)

Hercules Pillar

Kopapa

My Old Dutch

New Ambassadors Theatre

Philomena’s

Princess Louise

Salsa!

Secrets

St Martin’s Theatre

Sway

The Angel

The Cambridge Theatre

The Crown

The London Cocktail Club

The Old Crown

The Polish Bar (Na Zdrowie)

The Sun

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Covent Garden

From fruit and veg to Froo Tan Vetch

Covent Garden is a district in London on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St. Martin’s Lane and Drury Lane.

It is associated with the former fruit and vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and the Royal Opera House, which is also known as Covent Garden. The district is divided by the main thoroughfare of Long Acre, north of which is given over to independent shops centred on Neal’s Yard and Seven Dials, while the south contains the central square with its street performers and most of the elegant buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the London Transport Museum.

Though mainly fields until the 16th century, the area was briefly settled when it became the heart of the Anglo-Saxon trading town of Lundenwic. After the town was abandoned, part of the area was walled off by 1200 for use as arable land and orchards by Westminster Abbey, and was referred to as ’the garden of the Abbey and Convent’. The land, now called the Covent Garden, was seized by Henry VIII, and granted to the Earls of Bedford in 1552. The 4th Earl commissioned Inigo Jones to build some fine houses to attract wealthy tenants. Jones designed the Italianate arcaded square along with the church of St Paul’s. The design of the square was new to London, and had a significant influence on modern town planning, acting as the prototype for the laying-out of new estates as London grew.

A small open-air fruit and vegetable market had developed on the south side of the fashionable square by 1654. Gradually, both the market and the surrounding area fell into disrepute, as taverns, theatres, coffee-houses and brothels opened up; the gentry moved away, and rakes, wits and playwrights moved in.

By the 18th century it had become a well-known red-light district, attracting notable prostitutes. An Act of Parliament was drawn up to control the area, and Charles Fowler’s neo-classical building was erected in 1830 to cover and help organise the market. The area declined as a pleasure-ground as the market grew and further buildings were added: the Floral Hall, Charter Market, and in 1904 the Jubilee Market. By the end of the 1960s traffic congestion was causing problems, and in 1974 the market relocated to the New Covent Garden Market about three miles (5 km) south-west at Nine Elms. The central building re-opened as a shopping centre in 1980, and is now a tourist location containing cafes, pubs, small shops, and a craft market called the Apple Market, along with another market held in the Jubilee Hall.

Covent Garden tube station is a Grade II listed building and was opened by Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway on 11 April 1907, four months after services on the rest of the line began operating on 15 December 1906.

Like the rest of the original GNP&BR stations, the street level station building and platform tiling was designed by Leslie Green. The station building is a classic red ’Oxblood’ building which has two elevations fronting onto the end of James Street and Long Acre. The platform wall was tiled with two shades of yellow and white tiling which formed geometric shapes along with three blank spaces to incorporate the station name. As part of TFL’s investment programme, the ageing tiling dating back from the station’s opening was replaced in 2010 in a like-for-like basis, retaining the look and feel of the platforms.

Covent Garden station is one of the few stations in Central London for which platform access is only by lift or stairs and often becomes congested due to the Covent Garden area’s popularity with tourists. To control congestion on Saturday afternoons, when the surrounding shopping areas are at their busiest, the station was previously exit only to avoid the risk of dangerous overcrowding of the platforms, but following replacement of the lifts, this restriction has been lifted. There are four lifts which give access to street level, although a final flight of stairs from the lifts to the platforms means that the station is wheelchair inaccessible. Alternatively, there is an emergency spiral staircase of 193 steps (The equivalent to a 15 storey building). During the lift journey a recorded announcement is played asking passengers to have their tickets/passes ready as they exit the lifts and advising where to turn for Covent Garden’s market.

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William Shakespeare TUM image id: 1509551019 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Hole In The Wall, Waterloo Credit: Virtual Tourist TUM image id: 1605093975 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Trafalgar Square was a former station on the Bakerloo Line before it combined with Strand station on the Northern Line to become the new Charing Cross underground station. Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1624972963 Licence:	Strand stretches along the River Thames between Trafalgar Square and Aldwych Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1625131830 Licence:	The old wooden Temple Bar Credit: Walter Thornbury TUM image id: 1523115955 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Waterloo Bridge on an 1810 map. TUM image id: 1556885410 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Hungerford Stairs circa 1828 TUM image id: 1557403389 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Buses outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. Date of photo unknown Credit: Stockholm Transport Museum TUM image id: 1557142527 Licence:	Tottenham Court Road (1927) TUM image id: 1556973109 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Royal Opera House, Bow Street frontage, with the statue of Dame Ninette de Valois in the foreground Credit: Russ London TUM image id: 1557227200 Licence:
London Hippodrome in 2017 Credit: Ethan Doyle White TUM image id: 1528649183 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Sectional view of Wyld’s Great Globe, which stood in Leicester Square, London 1851–62 Credit: Illustrated London News TUM image id: 1490829375 Licence:	De Hems, 11 Macclesfield Street and the entrance to Horse & Dolphin Yard. Credit: Colonel Warden TUM image id: 1526658322 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Trafalgar Square (1905) The steeplejack firm of W. Larkins Co Ltd. are at work cleaning Nelson’s Column for the first time since it was erected in 1843. The firm had been founded by Willliam Larkins in 1897 and he is pictured at the top next to Lord Nelson. TUM image id: 1663086959 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Strand frontage of Northumberland House (1752) The Percy Lion is atop the central façade and the statue of Charles I at right survives to this day The pedestrianised area in the foreground became the site of Trafalgar Square - back then it was the Royal Mews Credit: Giovanni Canaletto TUM image id: 1605613806 Licence:

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Trafalgar Square was a former station on the Bakerloo Line before it combined with Strand station on the Northern Line to become the new Charing Cross underground station.
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Strand stretches along the River Thames between Trafalgar Square and Aldwych
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Waterloo Bridge on an 1810 map.
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Hungerford Stairs circa 1828
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The Royal Opera House, Bow Street frontage, with the statue of Dame Ninette de Valois in the foreground
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London Hippodrome in 2017
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Trafalgar Square (1905) The steeplejack firm of W. Larkins Co Ltd. are at work cleaning Nelson’s Column for the first time since it was erected in 1843. The firm had been founded by Willliam Larkins in 1897 and he is pictured at the top next to Lord Nelson.
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The Strand frontage of Northumberland House (1752) The Percy Lion is atop the central façade and the statue of Charles I at right survives to this day The pedestrianised area in the foreground became the site of Trafalgar Square - back then it was the Royal Mews
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British Museum station
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The Adelphi Building on Savoy Place, looking north from Victoria Embankment Gardens (2018)
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