He was describing Covent Garden market. For centuries, Covent Garden was renowned for its fruit and vegetable market, which was there until 1974 when it moved out of central London to Nine Elms.

It’s half a century since Covent Garden’s eponymous market travelled south of the River Thames, but it did little to dent the area’s appeal. Jack Watkins charts the history of Covent Garden from Tudor ...

Frustration is mounting among some Covent Garden Market vendors as construction that shut down the front entrance will drag into the summer, cutting into all-important foot and patio traffic ...

Covent Garden owes its name to the medieval market garden of the Benedictine Convent of St Peter’s, Westminster. Henry VIII took possession during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536, but, ...