Fitzrovia
Location
OS grid reference:	TQ293816
Latitude:	51.518459°
Longitude:	-0.135504°
Administration
London borough:
County level:	Greater London
Region:	London
Constituent country:	England
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county:	Greater London
Historic county:	Middlesex
Services
Police force:	Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade:	London Fire Brigade
Ambulance service:	London Ambulance
Post office and telephone
Post town:	LONDON
Postal district:	W1
Dialling code:	020
Politics
UK Parliament:
London Assembly:
European Parliament:	London
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Fitzrovia is an area of central London. It is a small, informally designated area and not an administrative district. The eastern section of the district is in the London Borough of Camden and the western section is in the City of Westminster. It is bounded to the north by Euston Road, to the east by the Tottenham Court Road, to the south by Oxford Street and to the west by Great Portland Street. Image File history File links Greater_london_outline_map. ... Image File history File links Red_pog. ... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... Latitude, usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ... Longitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ... 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Fitzrovia's name is obscure compared to those of most central London areas, including its neighbours such as Soho to the south and Bloomsbury to the east. The area was unnamed until the mid-twentieth century when, in the light of the area's burgeoning reputation as the home of bohemian and literary London, it adopted the name of its most renowned public house and literary salon, the Fitzroy Tavern. There have been repeated failed attempts to rename the area in the New York fashion, Noho (north of Soho)^{[citation needed]}. Soho is an area of central Londons West End in the borough the City of Westminster. ... Bloomsbury is an area of central London, in the London Borough of Camden. ... Bohemians are inhabitants of Bohemia, Czech Republic. ... For notes on some individual UK pubs, see Notable United Kingdom public houses. ... The Fitzroy Tavern is a pub situated at 16 Charlotte Street in the Fitzrovia district of central London, England. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... NoHo can also refer to North Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. ...

The northern part of the area was first developed in the 18th century by the Hon. Charles FitzRoy, (later Baron Southampton), who purchased the Manor of Tottenhall and built Fitzroy Square to which he gave his name. The square is the most distinguished of the original architectural features of the district, having been designed in part by Robert Adam. The south western area was first developed by the Duke of Newcastle, establishing Oxford Market, now the area around Market Place.By the beginning of the 19th century,this part of London was heavily built upon, severing one of the main routes through it, Marylebone Passage, into the tiny remnant that remains today on Wells Street, opposite what would have been the Tiger public house - now a rubber clothing emporium. (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... Charles FitzRoy, 1st Baron Southampton (25 June 1737–21 March 1797) was a British statesman and soldier. ... Fitzroy Square is one of the most beautiful Georgian Squares in London and is the only one found in the central London area known as in Fitzrovia. ... Robert Adam Robert Adam (3 July 1728 - 3 March 1792) was a Scottish architect, interior designer and furniture designer, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. ...

Much of Fitzrovia was developed by small landowners, and this led to a predominance of small and irregular streets, in comparison with neighbouring districts like Marylebone and Bloomsbury, which were dominated by one or two landowners, and were thus developed more schematically, with stronger grid patterns and a greater number of squares. Unlike its neighbours to the south, east and west, Fitzrovia never had a spell as a fashionable residential district. Marylebone (sometimes written St. ...

The most prominent feature of the area is the BT Tower, which is one of London's tallest buildings. BT Tower from the Euston Road, looking south. ...

Business in Fitzrovia

In its early days, it was largely an area of well to do tradesmen and craft workshops, with Edwardian mansion blocks built by the Quakers to allow theatre employees to be close to work. Nowadays property uses are diverse, but Fitzrovia is still well known for its fashion industry, now mainly comprising wholesalers and HQs of the likes of FCUK. New media outfits have replaced the photographic studios of the 1970s - 1990s, often housed in warehouses built to store the changing clothes of their original industry - fashion. Charlotte Street was for many years the home the British advertising industry and is known for its many and diverse restaurants, Today the district still houses the illustrious Saatchi & Saatchi and TBWA advertising agencies, although the modular ex-BT building occupied by McCann-Erickson was demolished in 2006 after they moved to an art deco home in Bloomsbury. Billboards and street advertising in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, (2005) Advertising is the business of drawing public attention to goods and services, performed through a variety of media. ... Saatchi and Saatchi is an advertising agency founded by brothers Maurice (now Lord Saatchi) and art collector Charles, most famous for their campaign on behalf of the Conservative Party before the 1979 UK general election and for the adverts for British Airways and other state owned interests privatised by the... One of the worlds leading advertising agencies, TBWA handles the advertising for such brands as adidas, Apple, PlayStation, and Nissan. ...

A number of television production and post-production companies are based in the area. Nickelodeon and CNN Europe also headquartered in the area. ITN used to be based at 48 Wells Street during the 1980swith its Factual Department still housed on Mortimer Street and rival Channel 4 was briefly situated on Charlotte Street. London's Time Out magazine and City Guide is created and edited on Tottenham Court Road on the border of Fitzrovia. Nickelodeon UK (usually called Nickelodeon or Nick) is a satellite/cable TV station for children. ... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... ITN may refer to: Independent Television News In the news, a section on the Main Page of English Wikipedia This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Channel 4 is a public-service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... Time-out can mean: sport time-out, a break in play that may be called by a side to formulate strategy or respond to an players injury. ...

A number of Structural engineering Consultants are based in offices on Newman Street and the world headquarters of Arup is on Fitzroy Street. There were many hospitals (Middlesex Hospital, which closed in 2006, and St Luke's Hospital), which is now a home for retired clergy. A handful of minor embassies (El Salvador, Mozambique, Turkmenistan and Croatia), nestle amongst the many and varied public houses. Retail uses spill into parts of Fitzrovia from Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, which are two of the principal shopping streets in central London. It has been suggested that Structural engineer be merged into this article or section. ... A consultant is a professional that provides expert advice in a particular domain or area of expertise such as accountancy, information technology, the law, human resources, marketing, medicine, finance or more esoteric areas of knowledge, for example engineering and scientific specialties such as materials science, instrumentation, avionics, and stress analysis. ... Arup is a professional services firm providing engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. ... St Lukes Hospital may be a reference to one of many hospitals. ...

Fitzrovia and the arts

Fitzrovia was a notable artistic and bohemian centre from a period dating roughly from the mid 1920s until the mid to late 1950s. Amongst those known to have lived locally and frequented public houses in the area such as the Fitzroy Tavern and the Wheatsheaf are Augustus John, Quentin Crisp, Dylan Thomas, Aleister Crowley, the racing tipster Prince Monolulu, Nina Hamnett, and George Orwell. Another pub in the area, the Newman Arms, features in Orwell's novels 1984 and Keep the Aspidistra Flying and in the Michael Powell film Peeping Tom. George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf lived at different times in the same house in Fitzroy Square. Ian McEwan lives in the square and set his novel Saturday in the area. Thomas Paine's Rights of Man was published during his residence at 154 New Cavendish Street in reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, who lived at 18 Charlotte Street. The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... The 1950s was the decade spanning the years 1950 to 1959. ... Artist John, on a 1928 Time cover Augustus Edwin John OM (January 4, 1878–October 13, 1961) was a Welsh painter. ... Quentin Crisp. ... Dylan Marlais Thomas, (October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer. ... Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley, (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947; the surname is pronounced with the first syllable sounding like the bird) was an English occultist, prolific writer, mystic, hedonist, and sexual revolutionary. ... Ras Prince Monolulu (1881 British Guiana - 1965 Middlesex Hospital, London), whose real name was Peter Carl Mackay, was something of an institution on the British horse-racing scene from the 1920s until the time of his death. ... Nina Hamnett (February 14, 1890 - December 16, 1956) was an artist and writer, known as the Queen of Bohemia. ... It has been suggested that Eileen OShaughnessy be merged into this article or section. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Keep the Aspidistra Flying book cover Keep the Aspidistra Flying (first published 1936) is a novel by George Orwell. ... Michael Powell film-maker. ... Peeping Tom is a 1960 psychological horror film by the British film director Michael Powell. ... George Bernard Shaw (George) Bernard Shaw[1] (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950) was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 and an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay in 1938 for Pygmalion. ... Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) is a British novellist who by reputation is regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ... Ian McEwan CBE, (born June 21, 1948), is a British novelist (sometimes nicknamed Ian Macabre because of the nature of his early work). ... The British hardcover edition, with the Post Office Tower in the background Saturday (2005) is a novel by the British author Ian McEwan that charts the day of a 48 year old London neurosurgeon called Henry Perowne. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Thomas Paine wrote the Rights of Man in 1791 as a reply to Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke, and as such, it is a work glorifying the French Revolution. ... Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 – July 9, 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. ... Reflections on the Revolution in France is a work of political commentary written by Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke, first published on 1 November 1790. ...

Chartist meetings were hosted in the area, some attended by Karl Marx who is known to have been to venues at Charlotte Street, Tottenham Street and Rathbone Place. The area became a ganglion of Chartist activities after the Reform Act 1832 and was host to a number of working men's clubs. A movement for social and political reform in the United Kingdom during the mid_19th century, Chartism gains its name from the Peoples Charter of 1838, which set out the main aims of the movement. ... Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818, Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883, London, England) was an immensely influential philosopher from Germany, a political economist, and a socialist revolutionary. ... The Reform Act of 1832 (known also as the Great Reform Act and The Parliamentary Reform Act 1832) introduced wide-ranging changes to electoral franchise legislation in the United Kingdom. ...

The UFO Club, home to Pink Floyd during their spell as the house band of psychedelic London, was held in the basement of 31 Tottenham Court Road on the eastern border of Fitzrovia. Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix also played at the Speakeasy on Margaret Street and Bob Dylan debuted in London at the King & Queen pub. Oxford Street's 100 Club is a major hot bed for music from the Sixties to the present day, and has roots in 1970s Britain's burgeoning Punk rock movement. The rock band Coldplay formed in Ramsay Hall, a University College London hall of residence within the area. The UFO Club was a famous but shortlived club in London during the 1960s, venue of performances by many of the top bands of the day. ... Pink Floyd are an English rock band noted for philosophical lyrics, classical rock compositions, sonic experimentation, innovative cover art, and elaborate live shows. ... The word psychedelic is a neologism coined from the Greek words for mind, ψυχη (psyche), and manifest, δηλειν (delein). ... The 100 Club is a music venue situated at 100, Oxford Street, London W1, UK. The 100 Club has a legendary status within the history of modern British music, having played live music since 24 October 1942. ... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Coldplay are a pop rock band from London, England. ... University College London, commonly known as UCL, is one of the colleges that make up the University of London. ...

Fitzrovia is also the location of Pollock's Toy Museum, home to erstwhile popular Toy Theatre, at 1 Scala Street. Pollocks Toy Museum is a small museum in London, England. ... Toy theatre was popular in Victorian era England. ...

External link

• Map of Fitzrovia and the surrounding districts - note that this widely used street atlas does not identify Fitzrovia as an area.