Covent Collection (page 6)

Cars blocking Lisle Street, London WC2. Parking was allowed on both sides of this one-way street, making it difficult for fire services to get through in an emergency

Firefighters at Covent Garden Market fire, London
Firefighters at the Covent Garden Market fire, London, on 20 December 1949. Date: 1949

Georg Solti, as sketched by Stephen Ward, 1961
Mr. Georg Solti(1912-1997), KBE, musical director of Covent Garden, as drawn from life by Stephen Ward during an audition for The Midsummers Night Dream, where Solti was guest conductor

A night at Covent Garden Opera House, 1925
An impression by the artist Fortunino Matania of the interior of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in 1925. A performance of Richard Strauss " Elecktra" is portrayed

Roshanara (Olive Craddock), Indian dancer
Mlle Roshanara (real name Olive Craddock, 1894-1926), Indian dancer in a graceful pose, with snake-like arms. She learned to dance as a child in India

Queen Victoria - Diamond Jubilee - Italian Opera Invitation
Invitation to a State performance at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, London on 23rd June 1897 to celebrate Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee

Covent Garden theatre and the Floral Hall. Date: 1895

Leaning Basket Tower
A champion basket carrier at Covent Garden, London, loses control of his basket tower - look out! Date: early 1930s

Macklins Home
The home of Charles Macklin, the long-lived Irish actor, in Tavistock Row, Covent Garden, London: Date: 18TH CENTURY

Great Labra of St Sabbas the Sanctified Convent, Palestine
The Great Lavra of St. Sabas, known in Arabic as Mar Saba - a Greek Orthodox monastery overlooking the Kidron Valley in the West Bank (east of Bethlehem)

Covent Garden. Concert
Cover of Oscar Wildes Plays by Doria Nachshen. Published in London in 1892. Engraving

London fire officer dies at Covent Garden fire
Station Officer Charles Fisher died fighting the blaze at the Covent Garden Market fire. The plan shows the extent of the fire but cannot show the extreme heat

Pidgeon hole. A Convent Garden contrivance to coop up the gods. A close-up view of one of the pigeon holes which flanked the upper gallery at Covent Garden... (Source: George). Date 1811

Christmas decorations in Covent Garden, London
Holly, ivy and Christmas trees on sale at Covent Garden, London, just before Christmas 1911. 1911

Middlesex Hospital, Cleveland Street, London
The Middlesex Hospital on Cleveland Street in Londons Fitzrovia district. The building was erected in the 1770s as a workhouse for the parish of St Paul, Covent Garden

Proms at Covent Garden, London, 1887
The promenade concerts, Covent Garden. An orchestra and a selection of musicians in rustic costumes adorn the stage. Date: 1887

Royal wedding 1893 - opera visit before the marriage
The royal party at Covent Garden Opera, for the performance of Romeo and Juliet. From left to right: the Duke of York, Princess May of Teck(1867-1953), Grand Duke of Hesse

The Volunteers Ball at the Floral Hall, Covent Garden, Lond
Engraving showing the Volunteers Ball at the Floral Hall in Covent Garden, London, 1860. This image shows the Volunteers in their uniforms and their partners in formal evening dresses

Fortune Theatre, Russell Street, London
The Fortune Theatre on Russell Street, Covent Garden, London presenting Fly Away Peter. Date: 1947

Samson - an oratorio
Title page of Samson by George Frideric Handel, as performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden

Covent Garden 1732
Covent Garden Theatre is built for John Rich, pantomimist and harlequin : the print depicts him making his triumphal entry into the theatre at its opening. Date: 1732

Busy scene outside Covent Garden Market, London
A busy scene outside Covent Garden Market, London. Horse-drawn carts are being loaded up with baskets of fruit and flowers

Music from The Yellow Dwarf, pantomime
Cover design for a collection of music from the pantomime, The Yellow Dwarf, a serio-comic fantasia performed at Covent Garden Theatre

Covent Garden Market Trader
A Covent Garden Market Trader unloads his wooden crates of fruit and vegetables

Market Traders - Covent Garden
Market Traders with their carts and crates and boxes of fruit and vegetables. Covent Garden, Central London

Architectural Details - carving by Grinling Gibbons in St. Pauls Church, Covent Garden, where the architect worshipped and is buried

Matilde di Shabran
A scene from Matilde di Shabran, an opera by Rossini, performed at the Royal Italian Opera at Covent Garden, London, in 1854

The Duke and Duchess of Leinster at the opera
The Duke and Duchess of Leinster at the Grand Opera season at Covent Garden. The Duchess of Leinster married the Duke in December 1932 and was previously Mrs Van Neck

Floral Hall
The interior of the Floral Hall, Covent Garden - though there is not a flower to be seen, you can at least admire the architecture

T. Lomath Jnr. - 14 Allington Street, Pimlico, London
The shop of T. Lomath Jnr. 14 Allington Street, Pimlico, London - a Fruiterer and Greengrocer

Newspaper boys, London - on Bedford Street, Covent Garden

Free Trade Bazaar
A Free Trade bazaar held at the Covent Garden Theatre in 1845. A large number of ladies in bonnets came be seen manning and attending the stalls under the Gothic roof

Spring in Covent Garden Market, London
Buyers and sellers at one of the flower and plant markets in Covent Garden, London

The New Flower Market, Covent Garden, London, 1872
Engraving showing the interior of the new flower market in Covent Garden, London, which was still being built in 1872

Toms Coffeehouse, Covent Garden, 1865
Engraving showing the exterior of Toms Coffeehouse, Great Russell Square, Covent Garden, London, 1865

The Garrick Club, Covent Garden, London, 1864
Engraving showing the exterior of the Garrick Clubs premises in King Street, Covent Garden, 1864

Childrens Pantomime
The Childrens Pantomime Party at Covent Garden Theatre

Calve as Carmen 1893
Emma Calve as Carmen at Covent Garden, London

Covent Garden 1746
Carts and carriages, a sedan chair and a wheelbarrow perambulate before the market buildings and the imposing piazza beyond; thats St Pauls church on the left

WATCHING I PAGLIACCI
Watching I PAGLIACCI (The clowns) from a private box at Covent Garden, London

Covent Garden 1930S
Busy scene in central London, looking towards Covent Garden, showing parked cars and vans unloading for the market and well-dressed people in hats milling about

Sophocles / Antigone
ANTIGONE performed at Covent Garden Theatre, 1845

Turner Birthplace Maiden
JMW TURNER Artists birthplace in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden

Syntax / Rowlandson / Party
Doctor Syntax: Quae Genus committed, with a riotous dancing Party, to the Watch-House

Covent Garden Mkt Porter
COVENT GARDEN A few people selling their wares from baskets

Covent Garden 1883
Buying flowers at COVENT GARDEN market

Ponchielli / Gioconda / Lbg
Performed at Covent Garden Theatre, London

Strawberry Seller
A woman in Covent Garden sells strawberries from a basket balanced on her head and distributes them in cones

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