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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 .
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]
In 1834, the present house opened slightly to the west, with a frontage on Wellington Street, [10] under the name Theatre Royal Lyceum and English Opera House. The theatre was again designed by Beazley and cost £40,000. The new house championed English opera rather than the Italian operas that had played earlier in the century. [11]
Later on the premises were used by the Wellington Dining Rooms, the St George's Club and the Devonshire Club. The Museum Club: 1844 Northumberland Street and then 5 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden: Literary Dissolved 1849 and replaced with "Hooks and Eyes" and "Our Club" National Sporting Club: 1891 43 King Street, Covent Garden: Sports; Boxing ...
The Old Bell is a Grade II listed public house at 16 Exeter Street and 23 Wellington Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2. [1] It was built in 1835. [1]
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.
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.
The main site in Covent Garden uses the name of its parent institution, and is open to the public every day, excluding over Christmas, [3] having reopened in 2007 after a two-year refurbishment. The other site, located in Acton , is the London Transport Museum Depot and is principally a storage site of historic artefacts that is open to the ...