
Planning applications have been submitted to Westminster City Council for a mixed-use development between Long Acre and King Street.
The proposals include new retail, residential and restaurants as well as the creation of new public spaces and routes to improve pedestrian movement in the area.
Please come to the exhibition to view the planning application documents and speak...
You may not be aware but there used to be a power station in Bull Inn Court off the Strand. The Charing Cross Electricity Supply Company was established in 1883 to provide lighting for the Adelaide Restaurant on the Strand. The plant, erected in the basement of the building which flanks Bull Inn Court consisted of a pair of multi-tubular Field boilers supplying steam to two Armington &...
Did you live or work in Covent Garden in the 70s and 80s, or take part in the demonstrations to save Covent Garden from demolition?
The Covent Garden Community Association are looking for people to take part in an exciting project...
Proposals are being drawn up by Covent Garden London for the creation of a mixed-use development between Long Acre and King Street that would include retail, residential and restaurants as well as the creation of new public spaces and routes to improve pedestrian movement in the area.
They want to show you the ideas and hear your thoughts. Come along to the public drop-in exhibition...
Eight years ago the Dragon Hall Trust held their very first monthly tea dance, and today they are as popular as ever. To put a spring in everyone’s step and to help celebrate their birthday the cast from new West End Show Burn the Floor will take...
On Thursday 26 July some children and staff from St Clement Danes CE Primary School were invited to be at Number 10 Downing Street for when the Olympic torch was brought there as part of its final journey into London.
They were...
The children of The Gardening Club members of the Peabody flats in Wild Street have made a model of the flats through the decades with each room decorated accordingly. This room shows the 1950s when residents were celebrating the Queen's coronation with street parties, as they will once again to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. It's a double celebration because Peabody are...
Come along to the screening of ‘Every Day except Christmas’, a 1957 film documenting life in 50s Covent Garden. The film will be preceded by a talk by Peter Daniel of Westminster Archives who will discuss what life was like in Covent Garden using some of the collection from Westminster Archives to inspire memories and conversation of Covent Garden, which will be recorded. Ian...
The lift wasn’t working that Thursday morning, so by the time Em had climbed to the fifth floor offices she was gasping for a cuppa.
The kitchen was empty, the kettle too, so she filled it and put it on to boil, then slumped against the windowsill and looked down. Five storeys below, the narrow streets of Covent Garden sprawled comfortably in the sun. Here, at the junction of West...
Covent Garden Safer Neighbourhoods Team’s Sergeant Rob Gauntlett tells In and Around Covent Garden about the work of his team in the area. Rob has worked in Covent Garden for two and a half years and along with the police constables and police community support officers that work with him, his primary responsibility is to ensure the safety of the area for residents, workers, and visitors....
