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Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. [1] It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and with the Royal Opera House, itself known as "Covent Garden". [2]
This category includes people from the Covent Garden neighbourhood of the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Camden in Greater London, England. It was part of Middlesex until 1889. It was part of Middlesex until 1889.
The entries in this tabulation cover some 150 years in the 17th and 18th centuries, when the private residents of Covent Garden included many people of rank and note. They ranged from marquesses to barons, foreign ambassadors and members of parliament to physicians, surgeons, antiquaries, artists, authors and dramatists.
Amanda Barrie (born Shirley Anne Broadbent; 14 September 1935) is an English actress.She appeared in two of the Carry On films before being cast as Alma Halliwell in ITV soap opera, Coronation Street, which she played on and off for 20 years.
Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford PC (1587 – 9 May 1641) was an English nobleman and politician.He built the square of Covent Garden, with the piazza and church of St. Paul's, employing Inigo Jones as his architect. [1]
Andrew Paul Gosden (born 10 July 1993) [1] disappeared from Central London on 14 September 2007 when he was 14. On that day, Gosden left his home in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, withdrew £200 from his bank account and bought a one-way ticket to London from Doncaster station. [2]
The former home of Blitz nightclub (1979), 4 Great Queen Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2. The Blitz Kids were a group of people who frequented the Tuesday club-night at Blitz in Covent Garden, London in 1979–1980, and are credited with launching the New Romantic subcultural movement.
He opened The New Theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1714, which he managed until he built the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in 1732. He managed Covent Garden until 1761, putting on ever more lavish productions. He popularised pantomime on the English stage and played a dancing and mute Harlequin himself from 1717 to 1760 under the stage name of ...