Covent Garden and Strand

Foreword

1 The Garden Grows

The origins of Covent Garden; Inigo Jones and the Piazza; St Paul's, the Actors' Church; The aristocracy and gentry move in[Rc1]

2 High Life, Low Life

A new cultural network of artists and writers; Coffee houses and gin palaces; Courtesans and prostitutes; .Crime and detection[Rc4]

3 Curtain Up

Punch and Judy; Two new licensed theatres; Covent Garden and Drury Lane; Nell Gwyn; Theatrical greats David Garrick, Edmund Kean and Richard Brinsley Sheridan

4 From Theatre to Music Hall

Supper clubs; Music halls; Great days of the Lyceum; Leading 19^th century actors; Charles Mathews, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry; Oswald Stoll and the Coliseum; Birth of spectacular theatre; Ivor Novello and No«l Coward

5 The Ever Changing Scene

The Market thrives; Central Market built; Moss Bros; Pantomime as annual outing; The arrival of American musicals; Floral Hall and Jubilee Market

6 The Covent Garden of Charles Dickens

Dickens' weekly journals; Household Words and All Year Round; Novel serialisations; The Six Toes Trial; Boom in book and periodical publishing; The Strand Magazine

7 All the World's a Stage

The founding of the Garrick Club; Characters of the Club; Unrivalled collection of theatrical paintings; The Milne legacy; Free speech and the Muggeridge affair

8 The Garrick Affair

Rivalry[Rc13] between Dickens and Thackeray; Marital discord; Edmund Yates and gossip journalism; expulsion of Yates from the Garrick Club and aftermath

9 'Let's All Go Down the Strand'

The [Rc16] Strand palaces; Opening of Charing Cross station; The Adams Brothers and the Adelphi Terrace; The Royal Society of Arts; Coutts Bank; Angela Burdett-Coutts, 'Queen of the Poor'; Exeter Hall, the Royal Courts of Justice; Twinings

10 A Good Night Out

Cookshops; Chop houses;Early restaurants - Rules, Simpsons-in-the-Strand, Romanos; Richard D'Oyly Carte; Gilbert and Sullivan; George Grossmith and the Savoy Operas; Opening of the Savoy Hotel

11 A Song and a Chorus

Gatti Brothers; The Adelphi and Vaudeville theatres; The Gaiety theatre; Gertie Millar; Showgirls marrying into the aristocracy[Rc19]

12 Ring in the New

The Market changes hands; Sir Thomas Beecham; Waldorf Hotel; Ben Travers and the Aldwych farces; The Blitz; The Covent Garden Market Authority; The Market moves; Campaign saves historic buildings