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Great Russell Street is a street in Bloomsbury, London, best known for being the location of the British Museum.[1] It runs between Tottenham Court Road (part of the A400 route) in the west, and Southampton Row (part of the A4200 route) in the east. It is one-way only (eastbound) between its western origin at Tottenham Court Road and Bloomsbury Street.[2]
The headquarters of the Trades Union Congress is located at Nos. 23–28 (Congress House).[3] The street is also the home of the Contemporary Ceramics Centre,[4] the gallery for the Craft Potters Association of Great Britain;[5] as well as the High Commission of Barbados to the United Kingdom.[6] The Queen Mary Hall and YWCA Central Club, built by Sir Edwin Lutyens between 1928 and 1932, was at No 16-22 (it is now a hotel).[7]
Famous residents
Great Russell Street has had a number of notable residents, especially during the Victorian era, including:
- W. H. Davies (1871–1940), poet and writer, lived at No. 14 (1916–22).[8]
- Randolph Caldecott (1846–1886), illustrator, lived at No. 46.[9]
- Thomas Henry Wyatt (1807–1880), architect, lived at No. 77.[10]
- Harry Jackson (1836-1885), actor, lived and died at 45 Great Russell Street.
- D. E. L. Haynes (1913–1994), classical scholar and British Museum curator, lived at No. 89.[11]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), poet, lodged at No. 119 (February–March 1818).[12]
- John Nash (1752–1835), architect, lived at 66 Great Russell Street, having designed 15–17 Bloomsbury Square and 66–71 Great Russell Street.[13]
See also
Adjoining streets:
Cultural institutions and sites
- The British Museum
- Faber and Faber, distinguished publisher (e.g., T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land)
- The park and garden in Bloomsbury Square
- Statue of parliamentarian Charles James Fox
- British Study Centres School of English
Nearby:
References
- ^ "British Museum – Getting here". britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "UCL Bloomsbury Project". ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Contact". TUC. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Contemporary Ceramics Centre". cpaceramics.com. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Homepage – Craft Potters Association". craftpotters.com. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "High Commission of Barbados in London, United Kingdom". embassypages.com. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ Historic England
- ^ Waters, B. (ed.) (1951), The Essential W. H. Davies, London: Jonathan Cape, (Introduction: W. H. Davies, Man and Poet, pp. 9–20)
- ^ "Caldecott, Randolph (1846–1886)". English Heritage. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Thomas Henry Wyatt : London Remembers, Aiming to capture all memorials in London". londonremembers.com. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ Cook, B. F. (23 September 2004). "Haynes, Denys Eyre Lankester (1913–1994)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55011. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 7 April 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Bieri, James (2005). Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography : Exile of Unfulfilled Renown, 1816–1822. University of Delaware Press. p. 57. ISBN 9780874138931. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
- ^ https://victorianweb.org/art/architecture/nash/10.html
External links
Media related to Great Russell Street at Wikimedia Commons
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