
Tag: covent garden


Trams, trains, tubes, trolleybuses and buses: a look around the London Transport Museum
Transport aficionados are going to love the London Transport Museum, a three floor attraction located in the Grade II-listed Flower Market building in Covent Garden Piazza.
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Poster Girls – a century of wonderful art and design by female artists at the London Transport Museum
Opening this Friday, 13th Oct, Poster Girls is a new major exhibition at the London Transport Museum, celebrating a century of art and design created by female poster artists.
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In photos: the amazing floating piazza at Covent Garden, as created by Alex Chinneck
Currently turning heads in Covent Garden is this remarkable structure by the artist and designer Alex Chinneck.
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Coffee and ruddy good cakes at Damson, St Giles High Street, central London
Putting up a strong challenge to become my cafe of choice when I’m in the Tottenham Court Rd/Covent Garden/Bloomsbury area is the rather lovely Damson Cafe on St Giles High Street.
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Covent Garden, the white cuddly bear and the wooden people
Here’s a few photos from taken around a bustling Covent Garden in central London over the weekend.
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The plinth, the artist and contortionist, Trafalgar Square, May 2011
If you can’t get enough of street performers and bizarrely garbed people standing still for long periods of time, then the good news is that you no longer have to …
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Stage doors, sweets and the old Marquee club, London
Some evening photos taken around Covent Garden on my Lumix LX5 camera . First up, here’s a sweet seller in a bowler hat at Seven Dials, London WC2.
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Half naked, unicycling knife-juggling street performer, Covent Garden
The tradition of street performers at Covent Garden dates back to the 1600s, but the area has changed dramatically after the famous covered fruit and vegetable market closed in 1974.
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Pic of the day: Hats, Covent Garden
The Blue Nile named a wonderfully melancholic album after them, Frank Sinatra was never seen without one, Tommy Copper wore a particularly fine example, and after decades in the fashion wilderness, it seems …
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Covent Garden photos: market views and curious street artists
Covent Garden is a ruddy weird place to be on on a busy Saturday afternoon. To get to the market, you have to pass rows of bizarrely painted ‘human statues’ …
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Covent Garden old market photos
We popped in to see this exhibition by photographer Clive Boursnell documenting the last days of the old central London fruit, vegetable and flower markets at Covent Garden. It’s only …
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