Ching Court was once owned by architectural ironmongers Comyn Ching & Co one of the oldest Ironmonger & Metal Working companies in the country, founded here in 1723. Redeveloped by architects Farrells from 1982-88, its reconstruction is in many ways a model conservation area.

Comyn Ching & Co. worked in the building trade with architects, public authorities and government. As architectural ironmongers to Queen Victoria (1884) and Edward Vll (1902) they provided gas lighting to Buckingham Palace and lamp posts, railings and gates to the Royal Parks.

Jo Weir MBE The Trust was much saddened at the passing of Jo Weir, who was truly a Covent Garden legend and chair of the Covent Garden Community Association for 34 years. Thank you Jo for your dedication to local issues and the outstanding contribution you made to our community.

Seasons greetings to everyone from the Seven Dials Trust! We have some lovely Xmas lights crowning the Sundial Pillar this year! We wish you all a Happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year!

Christchurch, which fronted Endell Street, lay upon the present day site of Dudley Court. It was consecrated in 1845 but demolished in 1930. Its spire was 129 feet high. This was struck twice by lightning in a great storm in 1877 and was so badly damaged it had to be rebuilt.

A Middlesex Sessions trial in 1836, revealed that James Selwyn maintained 'a penny exhibition, open at 11 o'clock at night, purporting to be a representation of the House of Lords on fire', at 28 St Giles High Street. Of many pictures shown, some were deemed indecent. #stgiles

Earlham Street had a thriving street market until the early 20thc and served the densely populated, low income local area. 'Cheap Fish of St Giles' (from ‘Street Life in London’, 1877) by photographer John Thomson (1837– 1921), shows a Victorian fish seller on Little Earl Street.

From 1802, Johnny Pitts (1765-1844) printed broadsheets and ran his Toy & Marble Warehouse from (present day) 33 Monmouth Street. This was mentioned in Charles Dickens' chapter on Seven Dials in 'Sketches by Boz' (1836). The business was still in existence in Soho in 1888.

In 1741, Hogarth’s The Enraged Musician visually described the cacophony of sounds heard all over London. In Seven Dials, shop owners and dealers in second-hand clothes in Monmouth Street employed 'barkers' who stood outside the shops and noisily touted for buyers.

Urgent! Comments/objections to the proposed redevelopment close midnight 23rd March! The Seven Dials Trust is objecting in the strongest possible terms to the redevelopment of the Saville Theatre! Please read the attached which links to how to object. sevendials.com/about-us/news-…

The Cambridge Theatre is a clean-lined, modernist building with an art deco interior designed by Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie. It opened on 4/9/30 with a Review called ‘Charlot’s Masquerade’ and after alternated theatre productions with opera, ballet and film.

It is 8 years since the Trust unveiled our People’s Plaque to The Roxy, the legendary Punk club at 41-43 Neal Street, Covent Garden. What a wonderful day it was! You can watch the day’s celebrations and see the PV of ‘Fear & Loathing at the Roxy’ here! m.youtube.com/watch?v=U7ca8t…

Victorian warehouses run along Shelton Street, once used by box and basket makers and to store fruit and vegetables for Covent Garden market. At 38 Castle Street was F Hund & Sons, a piano warehouse that imported iron cottage pianos and won a silver medal at the Great Exhibition

The Huguenot were early refugees to London and by the 18thc were living in St. Giles. West Street Chapel (built 1700) was their place of worship locally. Hogarth painted ‘Noon’ (Four Times of the Day) showing them leave the nearby French Chapel in Hog Lane now Charing Cross Rd.

Beside Drury Lane, the building at 90 Long Acre is the site of the old St. Martin's Hall, a large concert room that opened in 1850. The main hall had a 3000 seat capacity! Working Men's College was founded here in 1858 and to mark this Charles Dickens gave a first public reading

Five new Street History plaques for Seven Dials! The Trust is pleased to reveal our 5 new Street History plaques for Seven Dials and Covent Garden, generously supported by the Mercers' Company. The first celebrates the history of Mercer Street and The Mercers' Company!

Tomorrow! Huge congratulations to PineappleDanceStudio and #debbiemooreobe on their Seven Dials Trust #peoplesplaque !Unveiling at 2.30pm 10th July, Langley Street, Covent Garden!

On the 10/7/25, our latest 'People's Plaque' was unveiled at 7 Langley Street, commemorating Debbie Moore's renowned Pineapple Dance Studios! Photo: Debbie Moore OBE and the Right Worshipful the Lord Mayor of Westminster, Councillor Paul Dimoldenberg. Ballerina: Agnes Rose Lamb

Odhams Press was situated in two large 4 storey buildings which dominated the end of Endell Street from 1890 to 1970. This successful business published The Daily Herald, Women's Own, Debrett's, Sporting Life and John Bull, the most popular magazine in Britain from 1916 to 1934.

On the night of 28-29th January 1918, during WWl, a single RVl bomb destroyed the Odhams Press building, on the present day site of Odhams Walk, Endell Street. Some 38 staff and local people died sheltering in the basement when heavy print machinery and the building collapsed.