Street in Bloomsbury, London
Great Russell Street viewed from its junction withBloomsbury Street Great Russell Street is a street inBloomsbury ,London , best known for being the location of theBritish Museum .[ 1] Tottenham Court Road (part of theA400 route ) in the west, andSouthampton Row (part of the A4200 route) in the east. It is one-way only (eastbound) between its western origin atTottenham Court Road andBloomsbury Street .[ 2]
The headquarters of theTrades Union Congress is located at Nos. 23–28 (Congress House ).[ 3] [ 4] Craft Potters Association of Great Britain;[ 5] High Commission of Barbados to the United Kingdom.[ 6] YWCA Central Club, built bySir Edwin Lutyens between 1928 and 1932, was at No 16-22 (it is now a hotel).[ 7]
Jarndyce Booksellers, 46 Great Russell Street Great Russell Street has had a number of notable residents, especially during theVictorian 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 andBritish 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] George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812-1884), naturalist, specialized in conchology lived at 50 Great Russell Street, as written in the front press of the work The Conchological Illustrations[ 14] Carl Linnaeus is presented.Adjoining streets:
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^ "British Museum – Getting here" .britishmuseum.org . Retrieved4 March 2019 .^ "UCL Bloomsbury Project" .ucl.ac.uk . Retrieved4 March 2019 .^ "Contact" .TUC . Retrieved4 March 2019 .^ "Contemporary Ceramics Centre" .cpaceramics.com . Retrieved4 March 2019 .^ "Homepage – Craft Potters Association" .craftpotters.com . Retrieved4 March 2019 .^ "High Commission of Barbados in London, United Kingdom" .embassypages.com . Retrieved4 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 . Retrieved4 March 2019 .^ "Thomas Henry Wyatt : London Remembers, Aiming to capture all memorials in London" .londonremembers.com . Retrieved4 March 2019 .^ Cook, B. F. (23 September 2004)."Haynes, Denys Eyre Lankester (1913–1994)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/55011 .ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8 . Retrieved7 April 2019 . (Subscription orUK public library membership required.) ^ Bieri, James (2005).Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography : Exile of Unfulfilled Renown, 1816–1822 ISBN 9780874138931 . Retrieved31 October 2017 . ^ "67-70 Great Russell Street, London, by John Nash" .^ Sowerby, George Brettingham II (1841).The Conchological Illustrations . Retrieved27 August 2024 . Great Russell Street at Wikimedia Commons
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