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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. It is associated with the former...
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    Church is a Church of England parish church located in Bedford Street, Covent Garden, central London. It was designed by Inigo Jones as part of a commission...
    24 KB (2,701 words) - 00:59, 21 August 2024
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    Covent Garden is a London Underground station serving Covent Garden and the surrounding area in the West End of London. It is on the Piccadilly line between...
    13 KB (1,322 words) - 15:57, 30 August 2024
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    New Covent Garden Market in Nine Elms, London, is the largest wholesale fruit, vegetable and flower market in the United Kingdom. It covers a site of...
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    notably at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden theatres. He became so dominant on the London comic stage that the harlequinade...
    68 KB (9,139 words) - 15:00, 23 July 2024
  • was a fashionable nightclub located at 41–43 Neal Street in London's Covent Garden, known for hosting the flowering British punk music scene in its infancy...
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    The Covent-Garden Journal (modernised as The Covent Garden Journal) was an English literary periodical published twice a week for most of 1752. It was...
    24 KB (3,116 words) - 01:48, 2 January 2024
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    assassination of his predecessor Domitian. 1809 – The second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (interior pictured), opened in London after the original was destroyed...
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  • Thumbnail for Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies
    Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, published from 1760 to 1794, was an annual directory of prostitutes then working in Georgian London. A small pocketbook...
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  • Look up Covent Garden in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Covent Garden is a district of London. Covent Garden may also refer to: Covent Garden, Cambridge...
    818 bytes (144 words) - 01:19, 1 May 2022
  • Ballet at Covent Garden", The Times, 25 April 1946, p. 6. Haltrecht 1975, pp. 59–60 Parry 2010, p. 179. Haltrecht 1975, p. 73. "Covent Garden", The Times...
    41 KB (4,601 words) - 11:28, 25 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lamb and Flag, Covent Garden
    The Lamb and Flag is a Grade II listed public house at Rose Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2. The building is erroneously said to date back to Tudor...
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    Salisbury is a Grade II listed public house at 91–93 St Martin's Lane, Covent Garden, London which is noted for its particularly fine late Victorian interior...
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    German citizenship in 1953. In 1961, he became musical director of the Covent Garden Opera Company, London. During his 10-year tenure, he introduced changes...
    67 KB (7,828 words) - 00:38, 11 September 2024
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    theatre. In cooperation with John Rich he started his third company at Covent Garden Theatre. Rich was renowned for his spectacular productions. He suggested...
    99 KB (11,288 words) - 23:06, 14 September 2024
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    style, and the Banqueting House, Whitehall, as well as the layout for Covent Garden square which became a model for future developments in the West End...
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    performing in Malta, she auditioned for Frederick Gye, the manager of Covent Garden in London. He was impressed by her talent and signed her to a five-year...
    33 KB (3,517 words) - 23:05, 7 June 2024
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    in Covent Garden. Along with English National Opera, it is one of the two principal opera companies in London. Founded in 1946 as the Covent Garden Opera...
    87 KB (8,606 words) - 05:08, 18 August 2024
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    Webster, who ran the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet companies at Covent Garden, invited Davis to succeed Sir Georg Solti as principal conductor of...
    38 KB (4,245 words) - 22:29, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henrietta Street, Covent Garden
    Henrietta Street is a street in Covent Garden, London, that was once home to a number of artists and later became the location of many publishing firms...
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