FACTOID #151: The five countries with the highest coffee consumption are also the five countries whose citizens trust one another the most. Coincidence? Probably.
Drury Lane is a street in the Covent Garden area of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn. It was originally named after the Drury family, owners of a large house there during the Tudor period. Covent Garden is a shopping and entertainment complex in central London. ... St. ... Aldwych is a place and road in the City of Westminster in London. ... High Holborn is a road in Holborn in central London. ... The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor (Welsh Tudur) is a series of five monarchs of Welsh origin who ruled England from 1485 until 1603. ...
The name of the street is often used to refer to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, which has in different incarnations been located in Drury Lane since the 17th century. Also on Drury Lane is the New London Theatre. The present-day Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, sketched when it was new, in 1813. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... The New London Theatre is a theatre located on Drury Lane, London. ...
The street Drury Lane is also where the muffin man lives as mentioned in a popular children's song. A rendition of this song was included in Shrek. The word muffin is given to two types of breadstuffs, one a yeast-leavened item, and the other a quick bread raised with baking powder or baking soda. ... Shrek is a computer-animated movie adaptation of William Steigs 1990 fairy tale picture-book of the same name. ...
At DruryLane flourished the lovely "Nancy" Oldfield, who quitted the bar of the "Mitre" for the stage, and whose notorious intimacy with General Churchill, cousin of the great Duke of Marlborough, obtained for her a grave in Westminster Abbey.
Old Drury witnessed the farewell performance of Miss Farren (Countess of Derby) in 1797, just before she exchanged the buskin for a coronet; witnessed, too, the first appearance of Harriet Mellon, in 1795, and her last, in February, 1815for in the previous month she had wedded Mr.
DruryLane saw the rise of the long and devoted attachment of the Duke of Clarence to Mrs.
Lane myself and my other Great Great Grandfather, Horatio Lloyd, who was Arthur Lloyd's father, visited the Theatre on many occasions and writes about it in his Autobiography, which is a fascinating and contemporary account of a working actor in the mid 1800s.
It is popularly supposed that as a child she sold oranges in the pit of DruryLane and made her way to the stage at the early age of fifteen.
DruryLane Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1809, when Sheridan was at the House of Commons.
Feeds |
Contact