Everything about Drury Lane totally explained
» This article is about the street in London; Drury Lane is also the name of a well-known theatre on that street and of a fictional detective created by Ellery Queen writing as Barnaby Ross.
Drury Lane is a street in the
Covent Garden area of
London, running between
Aldwych and
High Holborn. The northern part is in the borough of
Camden and the southern part in the
City of Westminster.
It took its start from the west end of Wych Street, redeveloped in the later nineteenth century as
Aldwych. The lane led to the house built by Sir
John Drury,
Knight of the Garter in Queen Elizabeth's reign.
Drury House, with a
coachyard in front and a garden in back, was a scene of the intrigues that led to the ill-fated rebellion of the Queen's
favourite, the
Earl of Essex. In the 17th century it was the London house of the
Earl of Craven, then a
public house under the sign of his reputed mistress, the
Queen of Bohemia, but by the eighteenth century Drury Lane had become one of the worst slums in London, dominated by prostitution and
gin palaces.
The area was eventually cleared to make way for the developments of
Kingsway and
Aldwych.
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 in Drury Lane is the
New London Theatre.
The street Drury Lane is also where
The Muffin Man lives as mentioned in a popular children's song:
Do you know the Muffin Man?
The Muffin Man, the Muffin Man.
Do you know the Muffin Man,
Who lives on Drury Lane?
Drury Lane was the location of the first J.
Sainsbury's store, now one of the UK's largest
retailers.
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