Great Russell Street

November 19, 2023

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]

Great Russell Street viewed from its junction with Bloomsbury Street

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 edit

Jarndyce Booksellers, 46 Great Russell Street

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]

See also edit

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 edit

^ "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.

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November 19, 2023

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