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

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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:

See also

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Adjoining streets:

Cultural institutions and sites

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References

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  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. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.)
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ "67-70 Great Russell Street, London, by John Nash".
  14. ^ Sowerby, George Brettingham II (1841). The Conchological Illustrations. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
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