Great Russell Street

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Great Russell Street viewed from its junction with Bloomsbury Street

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]

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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

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Jarndyce Booksellers, 46 Great Russell Street

Great Russell Street has had a number of notable residents, especially during the Victorian era, including:

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Adjoining streets:

Cultural institutions and sites

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References

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  3. "Contact". TUC. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  4. "Contemporary Ceramics Centre". cpaceramics.com. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  5. "Homepage – Craft Potters Association". craftpotters.com. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  6. "High Commission of Barbados in London, United Kingdom". embassypages.com. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  7. Historic England
  8. Waters, B. (ed.) (1951), The Essential W. H. Davies, London: Jonathan Cape, (Introduction: W. H. Davies, Man and Poet, pp. 9–20)
  9. "Caldecott, Randolph (1846–1886)". English Heritage. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  10. "Thomas Henry Wyatt : London Remembers, Aiming to capture all memorials in London". londonremembers.com. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
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  13. https://victorianweb.org/art/architecture/nash/10.html

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