Bow Street
Bow Street is a thoroughfare in Covent Garden, Westminster London. It features as one of the streets on the standard London Monopoly board. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The area around Bow Street was developed by the Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford in the 1630s. Oliver Cromwell moved to Bow Street in 1645. Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford was born there in 1661. No.4 served as a magistrates court from 1739 and the Bow Street Runners were founded there by Henry Fielding in the 1740s. When the Metropolitan Police Service was established in 1829, a station house was sited at numbers 25 and 27. The present Bow Street Magistrates' Court and police station was completed in 1881. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Covent Garden: Covent Garden is a shopping and entertainment complex in central London. The flower, fruit and vegetable market, previously associated with Covent Garden, has moved to Nine Elms and is known as New Covent Garden Market. The area also contains an entrance to the Royal Opera House. 'Covent Garden' is... Westminster: Westminster is the area located immediately to the west of the ancient City of London, in the centre of the wider conurbation of London. The name was historically used to describe the area around Westminster Abbey – the West Minster, or church, that gave the area its name – which has bee... Monopoly: :This article is about the state of a player in economics. For the Parker Brothers board game, see Monopoly (game).... Bow Street related Images and Photos (experimental)
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