Die Geschichte des Covent Garden

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Die Geschichte des Covent Garden

The Covent Garden

 is a Centre in the heart of london. You can go shopping ,can go into a café or  relax. There is a maket with t-shirts ,trousers and clothes and there is a market with vergetables and fruits.In the closeness are some very cool shops.It is in a district in central London and within the easterly bounds of the City of Westminster. The area is dominated by shopping and entertainment facilities and contains an entrance to the Royal Opera House, which is also often known as "Covent Garden".























 

TIMELINE

1200s-1548

Pasture and gardens of the Convent of St Peter of Westminster

1548-1552

Henry VIII takes over after his destruction of the monasteries

1630

4th Earl commissions Inigo Jones to design Piazza and Square.

1670

5th Earl grants licence for fruit and vegetable market

1700-1812 

Market grows, aristocracy move west to Mayfair.  Coffee houses, gambling dens and brothels move in

1717

The first ballet staged at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, even though the Manager Colley Clibber has doubts that this new type of dance would catch on.

1813

6th Duke secures Act of Parliament regulating market

 1830

C Fowler designs and builds the present market

Mid 18th Century

Many homes in Covent Garden converted into seedy lodging houses and Turkish baths.  Several doubled as brothels.  The area becomes so renowned for prostitutes that magistrate Sir John Fielding calls it the Great Square of Venus 

1830-1914

London's main fruit and vegetable market employing over 1,000 porters

 1914

















Market is sold to the Beecham family (Beechams Powders)

1962

 Sold to the GLC for redevelopment

1973

Secretary of State creates 250 listed buildings in Covent Garden overnight to stop mass development

 1974

Market finally moves

1975-1979

 Market area restored and basement opened up.

1980

Market opens with 26 shops and six restaurants

 1988

Market is sold to Guardian Royal Exchange but GLC set up the Covent Garden Area Trust to preserve its character.

 


 

 

 

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  • unbekannt
    Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:06:26 GMT covent garden von Natalie (Gast)
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    hallo,

    ich muss morgen eine Gruppen Präsentation halten auf englisch,
    und ich habe das thema covent garden, die geschte des covent garden war sehr
    hilfreich! schreibe am freitag eine Mathe arbeit thema fonktion parabel
    terme binomische formeln usw halt was mann in der realschule hat, kennt jemand
    vielleicht eine seite wo das gut erklährt wirde das währe sehr hilfreich

  • unbekannt
    Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:45:03 GMT Covent garden von ertzu (Gast)
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    Müssten in deutsch auch sein
    zu kurz

  • unbekannt
    Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:40:43 GMT Dokument von Nadine Feichtinger (Gast)
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    ( Es ist sehr gut, aber leider zu kurz!

  • unbekannt
    Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:38:40 GMT Dokument von Nadine Feichtinger (Gast)
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    Es ist sehr gut, aber leider zu kurz!

  • Lordibaerchen90
    Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:09:19 GMT Naja... von Lordibaerchen90
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    vielleicht ein bisschen kurz,also der text,die timeline ist echt toll

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