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Recruitment poster for the RAFRecruitment poster for the Royal Air Force -- the gateway to a brighter life. The recruitment office is in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London
Fancy Dress Ball, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, 2 December 1920. Date: 1920
London Fire Engine Establishment, list of fire stationsFormed in 1833, the LFEE took over firefighting in London from the various Insurance Company fire brigades. It had 19 fire stations and its headquarters was located at Watling Street, City of London
Covent Garden MarketCrates of fresh fruit and vegetables from Norfolk etc. being unloaded in the morning at Covent Garden market, central London. Date: circa 1950
LCC-LFB fatal warehouse fire, Langley Street WC2Three firemen died fighting this blaze in a Covent Garden warehouse in Langley Street. The first crews to arrive, from Clerkenwell fire station, found the warehouse well alight
Covent Garden Royal Opera House in London. Floral Street is on the right. Date: 1947
Social / Royal Opera GalaA gala performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with the King and Queen in the Royal Box
Mrs Sullivan of Covent Garden MarketMrs Sullivan, or Auntie of the Garden, a famous character in Covent Garden Market who earned her living from looking after the carters whips
Jullien at Covent GardenJullien conducts a concert at Covent Garden Theatre, featuring not only his own concert orchestra but no less than four military bands !
Punch / Corn Law / CoventgdnCORN LAWS Purifying Covent Garden Theatre
Covent Garden MarketCOVENT GARDEN A view of the market setting up early in the morning with piles of crates and sacks lying around. Date: Spring, circa 1930
Champion Basket CarrierA champion basket carrier steals the show at Covent Garden Market, London
Covent Garden PortersCovent Garden was formerly the convent garden of the abbey of Westminster : it was for many years Londons major fruit and vegetable market. Date: 1924
Covent Garden MarketCOVENT GARDEN Early morning; a 21 year-old chap (Alfred John Lewis) in a flat cap, stands surrounded by baskets and crates of apples, fruit and vegetables
Covent Garden, 1810This is the new theatre, built after the disastrous fire of 1808; designed by Robert Smirke, it was the scene of riots when audiences complained of price increases
Covent Garden MarketCovent Garden
DER ROSENKAVALIER Octavian presents the Silver Rose to Sophie in Act II: from the Covent Garden production with Delia Reinhardt and Elizabeth Schumann Date: 6 June 1925
Covent Garden 1905Covent Garden : horse-drawn carts and wagons arrive, piled high with fruit and vegetables for the dining tables of London
Ballet Russses / CoverCover programme design for Col de. Basils Ballet Russes, at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, for June-September 1936
Poster, Moody Manners Opera CompanyTheatre poster, Moody Manners Opera Company, from Covent Garden, London, touring to principal cities with productions including Carmen, Lohengrin and Faust
Swan Lake - Robert Helpmann as Prince SiegfriedBallet dancer Robert Helpmann (1909-1986) in the role of Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake (Le Lac des Cygnes) at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London (Sadlers Wells Ballet). Date: 1946
Morning at the flower market in Covent Garden, 1905The interior of flower market at Covent Garden, 1905. The original caption in The Sphere reads "...People who go to the Opera are familiar with the drays laden with the most beautiful
London Trade Card - Francis Nobles Circulating Library, Otways Head, King Street, Covent Garden. 18th century
Covent Garden Market, London Date: circa 1907
Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane, Covent GardenWinter Garden Theatre on the corner of Drury Lane and Parker Street in Covent Garden, London. The New London Theatre now occupies the site. Date: 1947
Members of the Royal Family at Covent GardenA gala opera performance at Covent Garden is attended by the Queen and the President of Portugal (in the centre). To the left is the Queen Mother and behind her are Sir Anthony and Lady Eden
Trees, Covent GardenBuying Christmas trees in Covent Garden market, London
Scottish National churchCrown Court Church was established near Covent Garden in 1711, but extensively rebuilt in 1909 on the same site. The church is named after a small courtyard adjacent to its location
Swan Lake - Robert Helpmann and Margot FonteynBallet dancers Robert Helpmann (1909-1986) in the role of Prince Siegfried and Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) in the role of Odette in the finale of Swan Lake (Le Lac des Cygnes) at Royal Opera House
London / Covent GardenA market scene. Date: circa 1905
Covent Garden AdvertA stall at Covent Garden would cost you a guinea in the 1880s, (say x 100 today) showing that opera-going has always been an expensive, elitist affair. Date: circa 1880
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden HandbillTheatre Royal Handbill advertising the Marriage of Figaro and Virtues Triumph. Date: January 13th 1785
Backstage Covent GardenFashionable visitors in the salon at Covent Garden Theatre, London Date: 1820
Strike at Covent GardenCovent Garden market suffering from strike actions; a single cart leaving the market has to be protected by three policemen
Covent Garden 1930Covent Garden Theatre at night, operagoers arriving in evening dress which at this time was de rigueur
At Covent Garden 1914A gala performance at Covent Garden Theatre : most of the audience are there to see or be seen, rather than to enjoy the on-stage performance
Covent Garden Mkt / FlowerCOVENT GARDEN The flower stalls at the market
Covent Garden PostcardCovent Garden on a busy day - the entire space is taken up with stalls of fruit, vegetables and flowers
Covent Garden / MarkinoCovent Garden at 4 am : fruit and vegetables arrive from the country in the early hours of the morning
Covent Garden / CratesFresh fruit arrives on a Spring morning at Covent Garden market. A man carries a crate of oranges on his head
St Pauls Covent GardenSt Pauls Church, Covent Garden
Covent Garden CoffeeEarly morning in a coffeehouse near Covent Garden
The Ivy, 1946Illustration of the interior of the original Ivy restaurant in West Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden. Famously frequented by the great and the good
Covent Garden Market, London, Christmas Eve 1846Covent Garden Market, usually the sight of gleaming floods of colourful fruits and fine odours, but over the build up of Christmas the garment of green in which complete transformation of sprigs
The Whistling OysterA tavern in Vinegar Yard, Covent Garden made famous by the design of its signboard
Chesham, Bucks, Watercress Lorries, Mash & Austin LtdChesham, Buckinghamshire, Watercress Lorries of Mash & Austin Ltd. - suppliers to Covent Garden Market. Date: circa 1930s
Parish of St Paul'S, Covent Garden, London
Covent Garden Market, London