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Southampton Street, London

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Southampton Street
The southern pedestrianized end of Southampton Street
Length450 ft (140 m)
LocationCentral London
Postal codeWC2
Nearest Tube stationLondon Underground Covent Garden
Coordinates51°30′40″N 0°07′20″W / 51.5110°N 0.1221°W / 51.5110; -0.1221
south end A4
Strand
north endHenrietta Street
Southampton Street looking north in the rain from the southern Strand end, with Covent Garden Market in the distance.
Tavistock Street and Maiden Lane, a staggered crossroads on Southampton Street.
Clock in Southampton Street, outside the British Computer Society offices, looking south towards the Strand.

Southampton Street is a street in central London, running north from the Strand to Covent Garden Market.[1][2]

There are restaurants in the street such as Bistro 1[3] and Wagamama. There are also shops[4] such as The North Face outdoor clothing shop.

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History and people

The street, like Southampton Row in Bloomsbury to the north, is named after Sir Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton (1607–1667). It used to be in the district of Bloomsbury, but is now officially in Westminster.

Ambrose Godfrey (1660–1741), a German-born chemist, inventor of the fire extinguisher, and a collaborator of Robert Boyle,[5] lived and had a laboratory and pharmacy in the street from 1706 until his death.[1] A green plaque installed by the City of Westminster marks the site on the west side of the street at No. 31.[6]

John Ashburnham, 1st Baron Ashburnham, a landowner and politician, died at Southampton Street on 21 January 1710, aged 54. Charles Combe, the physician and numismatist, was born on 23 September 1743 in Southampton Street, where his father, John Combe, had a business as an apothecary. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, the dramatist, librettist, poet, and illustrator, who collaborated with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan in the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership, was born at 17 Southampton Street on 18 November 1836.

The publisher and editor Sir George Newnes (1851–1910) had offices at 8 Southampton Street.[7] Magazines published from 8–11 Southampton Street included The Grand Magazine, the Happy Magazine, John O'London's Weekly, the Ladies' Home Magazine, and The Strand Magazine.

Goupil & Co., the London branch of the Paris-based art dealership Goupil & Cie, was located at 17 Southampton Street in the 19th century. The painter Vincent van Gogh worked here.[8] He arrived on 19 May 1873 to work for the manager Charles Obach.[9] From August of that year while working here, he lived at 87 Hackford Road in Brixton, south London.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Southampton Street and Tavistock Street Area: Southampton Street". Survey of London: Covent Garden. Vol. 36. London: London County Council. 1970. pp. 207–218. Retrieved 20 December 2014. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ "Southampton Street". londontown.com. LondonTown.com]. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Bistro 1 — Southampton Street, London". allinlondon.co.uk. All In London. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  4. ^ "Shops on Southampton Street, WC2R". londononline.co.uk. London Online. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  5. ^ Burns, D. Thorburn. "The London of Robert Boyle". UK: Birkbeck College. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  6. ^ "Ambrose Godfrey". UK: Royal Society of Chemistry. 7 January 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  7. ^ O'Brien, Edward J; Cournos, John, eds. (1922). "English periodicals". The Best British Short Stories of 1922. Houghton Mifflin Co. pp. 484–486. ISBN 9781603036849.
  8. ^ "Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, The Hague, 5 May 1873". webexhibits.org. [WebExhibits]. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  9. ^ Tyrrell, Katherine (18 January 2010). "A map of Van Gogh's London". [makingamark.blogspot.com/ Making a Mark]. Blogspot. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  10. ^ "Famous Artists: Van Gogh". art0001.com. Xiamen Dooyi Importing and Exporting. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
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