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Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. [1] It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and with the Royal Opera House, itself known as "Covent Garden". [2]
It was the main supplier, along with Covent Garden, of fruits and vegetables to retail greengrocers. Amongst the notable businesses trading in the Borough Market were Vitacress, the Lee Brothers, Manny Sugarman, AW Bourne and Eddy Robbins. JO Sims, the main importer for South African citrus fruit, were also located in the market.
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 Apple Store on Regent Street. The Apple Store opened on Regent Street on 20 November 2004. At the time, this was the first such store in Europe, [47] with the others being in the United States and Japan. It was the largest Apple store worldwide until the opening of an even larger store in Covent Garden in August 2010. [48]
Apple’s standard return policy states that you have 14 days to return an Apple product from the day you bought it. But that only applies to purchases made from the Apple online store or at an ...
Apple Day was initiated by Common Ground on 21 October 1990 at an event in Covent Garden, London, and has been celebrated in each subsequent year. [2] By 2000 the day was celebrated in more than 600 events around the United Kingdom. [3]
The scenes I witnessed at the opening of the new Apple store in London's Covent Garden were more like an evangelical prayer meeting than a chance to buy a phone or a laptop. — Alex Riley , writing for the BBC [ 11 ]
The main site in Covent Garden uses the name of its parent institution, and is open to the public every day, excluding over Christmas, [3] having reopened in 2007 after a two-year refurbishment. The other site, located in Acton , is the London Transport Museum Depot and is principally a storage site of historic artefacts that is open to the ...