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Great Russell Street. Coordinates: 51°31′06″N 0°07′34″W. Great Russell Street viewed from its junction with Bloomsbury 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 ...
Charles Dickens (1812–1870), novelist, lived at 14 Great Russell Street, Tavistock Square and 48 Doughty Street. George du Maurier (1834–1896), artist and writer, lived at 91 (formerly 46) Great Russell Street. Benton Fletcher (1866–1944), housed his keyboard collection at the Old Devonshire House, 48 Boswell Street, in the 1930s and 40s.
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Montagu House (sometimes spelled "Montague") was a late 17th-century mansion in Great Russell Street in the Bloomsbury district of London, which became the first home of the British Museum. The first house on the site was destroyed by fire in 1686. The rebuilt house was sold to the British Museum in 1759, and demolished in the 1840s to make way ...
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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 ...
Jun 23, 2017 · Engraving by James Simon, 1714. The Montagu House gardens opened to the public in 1757, with access to the interior of the house and its collections following, once the refurbishments were complete, in 1759. Gateway of Montagu House, looking east along Great Russell Street. Drawing by Michael Angelo Rooker (1746–1801).
Thanet House Great Russell Street. Condition of repair. The premises are in good repair. Biographical notes. Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet, was born in 1644, and died in 1729. Parton mentions that the autograph of the Earl, as a vestryman of St. Giles, occurs in the parish books between the years 1684 and 1690. The death of his eldest son ...
This gallery was the first wing of the new Museum's quadrangular building to be built, with construction beginning in 1823. The room was on a grand scale: it's 91m (300ft) long, 12m (41ft) high and 9m (30ft) wide and its large dimensions required a pioneering approach to construction, with the use of cast irons beams to support the ornate ceiling.
