Covent Garden
About Covent Garden
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 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". The district is divided by the main thoroughfare of Long Acre, north of which is given over to independent shops centred on Neal's Yard and Seven Dials, while the south contains the central square with its street performers and most of the historical buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the London Transport Museum and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
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This was in Covent Garden, right, which is where we are now. If there was 100 metres away, there was a whistling oyster, which you'd read about in a magazine.
from 247: No Such Thing As Footprints On The Sea, 2018-12-14 at 00:32:36 · read transcript
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There is a pub that I'd love for all of us to go to when we're back in Publand. Amen. It's the Dolphin Tavern, and it's not far from our offices in Covent Garden, it's up in Holburn. The initial pub that was built on the site was bombed to the ground on the 8th of September 1915. It was completely destroyed, rubble everywhere, and they decided to rebuild it.
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We just haven't solved that problem of building burning down yet. In theaters, it used to be because they used to light things up with with like fire all the time. There was a few that burnt down in Covent Garden quite a while ago. Then they had to put the prices up. People protested against the prices going up because they had to pay for this damage.
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Not his, not an original idea, but no, no, no, it was. That's just a joke. Supposedly he, he looked at the whole, every lemon there was in Harrods and Selfridges of Fortnum and Mason's. Then he looked at 900 individual lemons at Covent Garden to find the perfect lemon to base his lemon on. Oh, I see. Because it's in the shape of a lemon. Because it's in the shape of a lemon.
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