The Plaster Busts of Caracalla and Marcus Aurelius.
Foundling Hospital.
On carved wooden Brackets.
Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Great Queen Street
Great Queen Street, Holborn - Some Notes.
John Vanderbank's workshop, where this tapestry was woven, was the leading English tapestry manufactory in the late 17th century. Vanderbank was Yeoman Arras-maker to the Great Wardrobe, supplying the royal family from his premises in Great Queen Street, Covent Garden, London, from 1689 until his death in 1717.
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The Corner of Gt Queen Street and Little Queen Street.
Covent Garden and the Seven Acres in Long Acre.
Early History
The Bedford Estates
The garden of the Convent of St. Peter, Westminster, consisted of about 40 acres between St. Martin's Lane and 'Aldewichstrate' (now Drury Lane).
The boundary is roughly defined by Drury Lane, Floral Street, St. Martin's Lane and a line drawn south of Chandos Place, Maiden Lane, Exeter Street and thence via Aldwych back to Drury Lane.
It was marked by an earth or mud wall, the top of which was thatched with straw. (fn. 4) There was at least one gate on the east side, probably where Aldwych now meets Drury Lane, near the east end of White Hart Yard (see Plate 7), and it is likely that another gate stood where later (Little) Chandos Street entered St. Martin's Lane.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol36/pp19-21
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