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The station was used for a sequence in the 1981 film An American Werewolf in London. [40] A scene in the 2008 film The Bank Job is set in the station, though it was shot at Aldwych tube station. [41] A scene in the musical We Will Rock You is set in the station; the musical played across the street at the Dominion Theatre from 2002 to 2014. [42 ...
Statue of Freddie Mercury on the theatre façade during the 12-year run of We Will Rock You. In the 1970s, the Dominion returned to hosting concerts; [8] since 8 November 1981 it has been primarily used for live performances. [4] [5] It was where Tangerine Dream recorded the album Logos in 1982, which contains a tribute tune called "Dominion".
The Shard, [a] also referred to as the Shard London Bridge [12] and formerly London Bridge Tower, [13] is a 72-storey mixed-use development supertall pyramid-shaped skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Southwark, London, that forms part of The Shard Quarter development.
The Dominion Theatre opened in 1929, on the site of the old Horseshoe Brewery on Tottenham Court Road. It became a cinema in 1932, before reverting to being a theatre. It has a capacity of 2,000. [20] The UK flagship location of the Spearmint Rhino is located in this street.
Covent Garden station is one of the few stations in Central London for which platform access is only by lift or an emergency spiral staircase with 193 steps. [21] There are four lifts that give access to street level, although a final flight of stairs from the lifts to the platforms means that the station is wheelchair-inaccessible.
Centre Point is a building in Central London, comprising a 34-storey tower; a 9-storey block to the east including shops, offices, retail units and maisonettes; and a linking block between the two at first-floor level. [1]
The station appeared in a 1992 episode of Rumpole of the Bailey (Rumpole and the Children of the Devil), as Horace Rumpole and his wife Hilda travel there separately from Temple and Gloucester Road stations respectively. They exit Knightsbridge station from the stairs at the former street level portico on the corner of Hans Crescent and ...
Chancery Lane is a one-way street that forms part of the western boundary of the City of London.The east side of the street is entirely within the City, [1] whilst the west side is in the City of Westminster south of Carey Street and the London Borough of Camden north of that street. [2]