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Best Things To Do In Covent Garden
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Historic Sites

George Odger Blue Plaque - George Odger 1820-1877 Labour leader lived and died here
Dyers’ Hall, London Blue Plaque - Site of Dyers’ Hall 1545-1681
Mary Anne Clarke Blue Plaque - Mary Anne Clarke 1776-1852 Mistress of Prince Frederick Duke of York lived in a house on this site 1803
Charles Algernon Parsons Stone Plaque - 1855 - 1931 This Library is dedicated to Sir Charles Parsons scientist and engineer who in the XIX century invented and perfected the compound steam turbine The memory of the great is enshrined in books
Paul Nash Blue Plaque - Paul Nash 1889-1946 artist lived in Flat 176 1914-1936
William Butler Yeats Blue Plaque - William Butler Yeats 1865-1939 Irish poet and dramatist lived here
Charles Dickens Blue Plaque - This building housed the offices of Charles Dickens' magazine 'All The Year Round' and his private apartments 1859-1870
Brass Plaque № 7407 - Piccadilly Circus Spectacular Signs McDonald's Sign July 2008 Supplied by Daktronics UK Final module positioned by the long serving son of the father of Piccadilly electronic sign maintenance Albert Oaten 15th July 2008
Joseph Toynbee And Arnold Toynbee Blue Plaque - Joseph Toynbee 1815-1866 aural surgeon and his son Arnold Toynbee 1852-1883 social philosopher lived here 1854-1866
Anna Maria Garthwaite Blue Plaque - Anna Maria Garthwaite 1690-1763 designer of Spitalfields Silks lived and worked here
Henry Cole Blue Plaque - Sir Henry Cole lived here 1879-1880. He originated the custom of sending Christmas Cards and was largely responsible for the foundation of the Kensington Museum. He was also a great postal reformer.
Oscar Wilde And Arthur Conan Doyle Green Plaque - Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle dined here with the publisher of 'Lippincott's Magazine' on 30 August 1889, a meeting that led to 'The Sign Of Four' & 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray'
Christopher Wren Grey Plaque - The church of St Dunstan in the East stood on this site from ancient times. Sir Christopher Wren rebuilt the church after the Great Fire of 1666 and the only part of his design which survivies is the tower. The remainder of the church was rebuilt in 1817 and destroyed by enemy action in 1941. This garden was created by the Corporation of London and opened by the RT. Hon. The Lord Mayor Sir Peter Studd. on 21st June 1971.
Henry Hallett Dale Blue Plaque - Sir Henry Dale 1875-1968 physiologist lived here
Fortune Theatre And Edward Alleyn Blue Plaque - Good Master Edward Alleyn's Fortune Theatre stood on a site near here in 1600
Cesar Picton Black Plaque - Cesar Picton c.1755-1836 a native of Senegal, West Coast of Africa. Brought to England in 1761 as a servant to Sir John Philipps of Norbiton, Kingston upon Thames. Later a coal merchant and gentleman lived here 1788-1807
Sydney Smith Brown Plaque - Sydney Smith 1771-1845 author and wit lived here
Robert Walpole And Horace Walpole Blue Plaque - Sir Robert Walpole 1676-1745 Prime Minister and his son Horace Walpole 1717-1797 connoisseur and man of letters lived here

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Trivia and Facts

The exact centre of London is marked by a plaque in the Church of St Martin's-in-the-Fields overlooking Trafalgar Square.

Evening Standard

Before the 17ft statue of Nelson was erected on top of the Trafalgar Square column in 1842, 14 members of the memorial committee who had commissioned the work held a dinner party on the 170ft-high plinth.

Evening Standard

Marble Arch was designed by John Nash in 1828 as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, but was moved to Hyde Park when Queen Victoria expanded the palace. It contains a tiny office once used as a police station.

Evening Standard

Quotes

I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Anthony Hopkins

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Samuel Pepys

I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.

Charles Bronson

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