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New Covent Garden Market It covers a site of 57 acres (23 ha) and is home to about 200 fruit, vegetable and flower companies. The market serves 40% of the fruit and vegetables eaten outside of the home in London, [ 1 ] and provides ingredients to many of London's restaurants, hotels, schools, prisons, hospitals and catering businesses.
The following year the market relocated to its new site, New Covent Garden Market, about three miles (5 km) south-west at Nine Elms. The central building re-opened as a shopping centre in 1980, with cafes, pubs, small shops and a craft market called the Apple Market. [69] Among the first shops to relocate here was Benjamin Pollock's Toy Shop. [70]
The area was formerly mainly industrial but has become more residential and commercial in character. It is dominated by New Covent Garden Market and Battersea Power Station. Nine Elms has residential developments along the riverside, including Chelsea Bridge Wharf and Embassy Gardens, and also two large council estates: Carey Gardens and the ...
The wholesale site marked its 50th anniversary.
Covent Garden Market located in the West End, was originally a flower market, now relocated to New Covent Garden Market, Vauxhall in south London. [16] The original building is now a shopping and tourist area with some shops, and there is an indoor market containing stalls selling jewellery, speciality soaps, tourist souvenirs, etc. [17]
New Covent Garden Market; New Spitalfields Market; S. Smithfield Market; Stratford Market; W. Western International Market This page was last edited on 27 July 2016 ...
A 55ft-tall Norwegian Spruce has been handpicked and freshly harvested to make its way to Covent Garden ahead of this year's festive season. London's shopping and entertainment hub will receive ...
Seven Dials is a road junction and neighbourhood in the St Giles district of the London Borough of Camden, within the greater Covent Garden area in the West End of London. Seven streets of the Seven Dials area converge at the roughly circular central roundabout, at the centre of which is a column bearing six sundials – with the column itself ...