From :Â In 1896 the street was renamed to join the street to its west, Old Compton Street. Â On we found a page reporting that Rimbaud and Verlaine in 1871 used to frequent a bar, the Hibernia, at 5 Little Compton Street. Â The building shown on that page is now 5 Old Compton Street.
Note: New Compton Street used to extend to the west and join Little Compton Street. Â This section of road may have disappeared in 1877 when Charing Cross Road was built over the (presumably narrower) Crown Street.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Little Compton Street
The grill is above a brick-walled tunnel which carries a mass of cables. The...
Opened as the Woolwich Polytechnic; it became the Thames Polytechnic in 1970 and was granted university status in 1992.Â
From UCL "{J. T.} Parkinson ... designed the new part-covered Portman Market for hay, fruit, vegetables, meat, and also pigs, erected in 1829–30 in Church Street off Edgware Road. Run by the agent ...
A prime meridian. Established by Sir George Airy. By 1884, over two-thirds of all ships and tonnage used it as the reference meridian on their charts and maps. In October of that year, 41 delegates...
Founded as the Church Choral Society by the Reverend Henry George Bonavia Hunt. with the intention of improving the teaching of church music. In 1873 it became the College of Church Music, and then...
The Ivy, opened by Abele Giandolini, as an unlicensed Italian cafe in 1917 in a building on the same site. Famous as a theatrical-celebrities haunt, possibly due to its late closing time of near-mi...
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