Great Russell 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]

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]

Famous residents

Jarndyce Booksellers, 46 Great Russell Street

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

• Charles Dickens (1812–1870), novelist, lived at No. 14.[7]
• 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]
• 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

Adjoining streets:

• Bloomsbury Square
• Museum Street

Cultural institutions and sites

• The British Museum
• Faber and Faber, distinguished publisher (e.g., T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland)
• The park and garden in Bloomsbury Square
• Statue of parliamentarian Charles James Fox
• British Study Centres School of English

Nearby:

• The Cartoon Museum
• St. George's church
• Dominion Theatre

References

1. "British Museum – Getting here". britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
2. "UCL Bloomsbury Project". ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
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. "Charles Dickens’ many addresses in Fitzrovia – Fitzrovia News". news.fitzrovia.org.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
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.
11. Cook, B. F. (23 September 2004). "Haynes, Denys Eyre Lankester (1913–1994)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-55011. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
12. Bieri, James (2005). "Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography : Exile of Unfulfilled Renown, 1816–1822". University of Delaware Press. p. 57. Retrieved 31 October 2017.

External links

Media related to Great Russell Street at Wikimedia Commons