Covent Garden [ Institutions ]
… Survey of London, 36). Premises in the Piazza could not become victualling houses or serve coffee, chocolate, tea, beer or liquor without permission until the 1720s. The first coffee house to open overlooking the piazza was the … Opera House since 1892. A new building was erected for the flower market in 1860, but was used largely for concerts instead. 17 The market buildings were extensively restored during the 1970s, when the flower market moved out to Nine Elms, …
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