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Wellington Street is a street located in Covent Garden, Westminster, London. It connects Bow Street , Russell Street, Tavistock Street , Exeter Street, Strand and Lancaster Place. The street takes its name from Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington .
This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London district of Covent Garden.Covent Garden has no formally defined boundaries – those utilised here are: Shaftesbury Avenue to the north-west, New Oxford Street and High Holborn to the north, Kingsway and the western half of the Aldwych semi-circle to the east, Strand to the south and Charing Cross Road to the west.
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]
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A proposed redevelopment of Covent Garden by the GLC in 1968 saw the theatre under threat, together with the nearby Vaudeville, Garrick, Adelphi and Duchess theatres. [28] An active campaign by Equity, the Musicians' Union, and theatre owners under the auspices of the Save London Theatres Campaign helped save the theatre. [29]
The WC (Western Central) postcode area, also known as the London WC postcode area, [2] is a group of postcode districts in central London, England.The area covered is of high density development, and includes parts of the City of Westminster and the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington, plus a very small part of the City of London.
The Bury Street premises operated until the mid-1950s, when Penhaligon's was purchased by Geo. F. Trumper, continuing to be manufactured from the basement of Trumper's Curzon Street premises, and slowly fell into obscurity until the brand was revived and a shop opened in Wellington Street, Covent Garden in 1977.
Ah, Covent Garden.Sure, the performers and pigeons still pervade the Piazza, and you have to navigate the people with maps and backpacks that stop suddenly in the middle of the street, but this ...