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Discover Tottenham Court Road
The district Tottenham Court Road of London in Greater London (England) is a district in United Kingdom and is a district of the nations capital.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 13°C / 55 °F
Morning Temperature | 10°C / 50 °F |
Evening Temperature | 13°C / 55 °F |
Night Temperature | 11°C / 52 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 85% |
Air Pressure | 1031 hPa |
Wind Speed | Light breeze with 5 km/h (3 mph) from West |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 99% of sky |
General Conditions | Overcast clouds |
Sunday, 3rd of November 2024
13°C (56 °F)
10°C (50 °F)
Sky is clear, gentle breeze, clear sky.
Monday, 4th of November 2024
13°C (56 °F)
11°C (52 °F)
Few clouds, gentle breeze.
Tuesday, 5th of November 2024
13°C (56 °F)
11°C (51 °F)
Overcast clouds, light breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
The London EDITION
Charlotte Street Hotel
Covent Garden Hotel
The Soho Hotel
The Rathbone
The Piccadilly London West End
Radisson Blu Edwardian Mercer Street Hotel
Radisson Blu Edwardian Bloomsbury Street Hotel
The Academy
DEAN STREET TOWNHOUSE
Videos from this area
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Paisley & Charlie '(It's) So Soho' (revisited)
'(It's) So Soho' (revisited) by Paisley and Charlie. Written and produced by Charlie Darling at the Recording Studio at the End of Belsize. Performed by Paisley Pattenden and Les Bicyclettes...
Crossrail time lapse video - Tottenham Court Road Western Ticket Hall, November 2010
This short time lapse sequence shows demolition works at the site of Tottenham Court Road's new ticket hall on Dean Street. The demolitions were conducted floor-by-floor. This method of demolition...
Tottenham Court Road Station - A Moment In Time.
Whilst waiting for my train home I film a different eastbound London Underground Central Line train arriving at Tottenham Court Road station, make a 'station stop' and then leave. This was...
London - Centre Point & Tottenham Court Road Upgrade
Centre Point &Tottenham Court Road Upgrade (July 2012) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Point.
London Tube Central Line at Tottenham Court Road
De London tube rijdt Tottenham Court Road station binnen.
Tottenham Court Road #tcr a bit earlier
Scene from Tottenham Court Road #tcr a short while ago. Police car sirens wail in the back ground. Pedestrians are pushed back behind cordons. It was all happening!
Office Space Tottenham Court Road
Serviced Offices Tottenham Court Road http://www.searchofficespace.com/uk/office-space/st-giles-circus-serviced-offices.html Facilities at this serviced office space include; access to executive...
Dell U2715H Unboxing
Epsilon PC 47 Tottenham Court Road London 020 7436 8393 http://epsilonpc.co.uk/ PC and Laptop components and Repair Please Subscribe : http://youtu.be/AfaKRP68ohA Epsilon Computers ...
TfL 134 Metroline bus absolutely pointless RLJ
LK62 DPY / LK62DPY Bus 134 ran the red light @ Tottenham Court Road @ 16:08 16/03/2015. It was absolutely unnecessary and was far away not an amber, the lights were red for at least 10 seconds.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Centre Point
Centre Point is a substantial concrete and glass office building in central London, England, occupying 101–103 New Oxford Street, WC1, close to St Giles Circus and almost directly above Tottenham Court Road tube station. The site was once occupied by a gallows. One of the first skyscrapers in London, it is now the city's joint 27th tallest building. Since 1995 it has been a grade II listed building.
St Giles Circus
St Giles Circus is the intersection of Oxford Street, New Oxford Street, Charing Cross Road and Tottenham Court Road in the St Giles district of the West End of London, near to Soho, Covent Garden, Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia. The word Circus is arguably a little misleading as the buildings around the traffic intersection are not all rounded, as with for example Oxford Circus. In the Middle Ages, the gallows were located at St Giles Circus alongside a cage for prisoners.
Foyles
W & G Foyle Ltd. (usually called simply Foyles) is a book seller known for its flagship store at 113–119 Charing Cross Road, London, England. Foyles was once listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest bookshop in terms of shelf area (30 miles/50 kilometres) and number of titles on display. In the past, it was famed for its anachronistic, eccentric and sometimes infuriating business practices, so much that they made it a tourist attraction.
London Astoria
The London Astoria was a music venue, located at 157 Charing Cross Road, in London, England. It had been leased and run by Festival Republic since 2000. It was closed on 15 January 2009 and has since been demolished. The venue is still seen today as an iconic music establishment, due to launching the careers of many British rock bands and the UK success of many international acts. Originally a warehouse during the 1920s, the building became a cinema and ballroom.
Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck, University of London (formerly Birkbeck College, informally BBK) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom which specialises in evening higher education, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It offers many Master's and Bachelor's degree programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is in the evening. It also admits full-time (as well as part-time) students for PhDs.
UFO Club
The UFO Club was a famous but shortlived UK underground club in London during the 1960s, venue of performances by many of the top bands of the day.
Architectural Association School of Architecture
The Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, commonly referred to as the AA, is the oldest independent school of architecture in the UK and one of the most prestigious and competitive in the world. Its wide-ranging programme of exhibitions, lectures, symposia and publications have given it a central position in global discussions and developments within contemporary architectural culture.
Bedford Square
Bedford Square is a garden square in the Bloomsbury district of the Borough of Camden in London, England. Built between 1775 and 1783 as an upper middle class residential area, the square has had many distinguished residents, including Lord Eldon, one of Britain's longest serving and most celebrated Lord Chancellors, who lived in the largest house in the square for many years.
Soho Square
Soho Square is a square in Soho, London, England, with a park and garden area at its centre that dates back to 1681. It was originally called King Square after Charles II, whose statue stands in the square. At the centre of the garden, there is a distinctive half-timbered gardener's hut. During the summer, it hosts open-air free concerts.
G-A-Y
G-A-Y is a gay nightclub in London. It operated from the London Astoria music venue for 15 years until July 2008. The Boston Globe described it as "London's largest gay-themed club night", NME reported that it "attracts 6,000 clubbers each week", and The Independent described it as "the one London gig that really matters" for "today's pop stars". On Friday 3 October 2008, it moved to famous gay venue Heaven.
Nag Nag Nag
Nag Nag Nag was an influential former London club night at the late Simon Hobart's Ghetto nightclub for six years, founded by veteran DJ, promoter and musician Jonny Slut. It is commonly associated with the ambisexual post-electroclash scene. The Independent described the night as a "legendary electro midweeker" famous for its blend of subcultures and musical styles. http://www. independent. co. uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/vitalic-nag-nag-nag-london-521084.
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art is a scholarly centre in London devoted to supporting research into the history of British Art. It was founded in 1970 and endowed by a gift from Paul Mellon. Since 1996, it has been situated at 16 Bedford Square in a Grade I listed building. This building houses an outstanding library of 12,000 volumes focused on British Art, and an archive that contains a number of important manuscript collections.
Hakkasan
Hakkasan is a high-class modern Chinese restaurant in the West End of London, England, at Hanway Place. The restaurant was created by Syra Khan Alan Yau, also behind the Wagamama Japanese restaurant chain and the newer Yauatcha restaurant, also in London. The multi-million pound interior at the original Hakkasan was designed by the French designer Christian Liaigre who fused distinctly modern aesthetic with traditional Chinese motifs. In January 2008 Alan Yau sold a majority share in Hakkasan.
Congress House
Congress House is the headquarters of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), a British organisation that represents most of the UK's trade unions. In 1948 David du Roi Aberdeen won an architectural competition to design the new TUC headquarters building in Great Russell Street, London. Staff began to move into the offices in 1956 and the building was officially opened in 1958. The building is Grade II* listed.
Astoria 2
The Astoria 2, subsequently known as the LA2 then the Mean Fiddler, was a nightclub at 165 Charing Cross Road in London, England. The venue was connected to the London Astoria such that the two venues could function as a single venue where needed. Like the Astoria, the venue was used for live music as well as night club promotions. A venue also called Mean Fiddler was previously set up in Harlesden, north west London in 1982.
Denmark Street
Denmark Street is a short narrow road in central London, notable for its connections with British popular music, and is known as the British Tin Pan Alley. The road connects Charing Cross Road at its western end with St Giles High Street at its eastern end. Denmark Street is in the London Borough of Camden. Denmark Street appears on surveys from the 1730s.
12 Bar Club
The 12 Bar Club is a music venue in London, England. It is located in Denmark Street, aka "Tin Pan Alley", just off Charing Cross Road and close to Soho. The most famous acts to play at the 12 Bar before they reached a wider audience include Martha Wainwright, Joanna Newsom, KT Tunstall (all of whose first London dates were at the 12 Bar), Damien Rice, Regina Spektor, The Libertines, Keane, Seasick Steve and Jamie T.
St Patrick's Church, Soho Square
St Patrick's Church is a very large Roman Catholic Parish Church in Soho Square, London that features extensive catacombs (that spread deep under the Square and further afield). St. Pats (as it is informally known) was consecrated as a chapel in a building behind Carlisle House on 29 September 1792. The present church building was built between 1891 and 1893, to designs by John Kelly of Leeds, and replaced the earlier and smaller chapel built by Father Arthur O'Leary in the 1790s.
The Gay Hussar
The Gay Hussar is a celebrated Hungarian restaurant located at 2 Greek Street, Soho, central London, England.
The Roxy (Rathbone Place)
For other people and places named Roxy see: Roxy and Roxy Theatre The RoxyLocation LondonType NightclubCapacity 400Website www. theroxy. co. uk The Roxy is a bar and nightclub in central London, United Kingdom. It is located at the Tottenham Court Road end of Oxford Street. The Roxy attracts a predominantly young crowd and is particularly popular with University College London students on Wednesday nights.
London Beer Flood
The London Beer Flood happened on 17 October 1814 in the parish of St. Giles, London, England. At the Meux and Company Brewery on Tottenham Court Road, a huge vat containing over 135,000 imperial gallons of beer ruptured, causing other vats in the same building to succumb in a domino effect. As a result, more than 323,000 imperial gallons of beer burst out and gushed into the streets.
DRL10 Pavilion
The DRL10 Pavilion is the winning entry in the ‘AADRLTen’ Pavilion competition held in 2007. It is an advanced technology concrete structure that was erected in Bedford Square, London in front of the Architectural Association School of Architecture and opened to the public on 13 March 2008 as part of the AADRL10 Exhibition and Publication celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the Archiectural Association's acclaimed Design Research Laboratory.
Open Space Theatre
The Open Space Theatre was created by Charles Marowitz and Thelma Holt in 1968. It began in a basement on Tottenham Court Road in London, then transferred to an art deco post office on the Euston Road in 1976. Thelma attracted a team of volunteer architects and workers to build the theatre (including David Schofield). And its first production was Charles Marowitz' adaptation of the Merchant of Venice ('The Merchant') starring Vladek Sheybal. The company operated until around 1980.
Manor House, 21 Soho Square
Manor House, 21 Soho Square is a Grade II listed building in the West End of London. It has 17th century origins but the existing structure dates from 1838. It was originally built in 1678 as a townhouse but through its history has also been a notorious brothel, the headquarters of Crosse & Blackwell and is now an office building.
High Commission of Barbados, London
The Barbadian High Commission in London is the primary diplomatic mission of Barbados to the United Kingdom. It is located at 1 Great Russell Street in London's Bloomsbury neighbourhood. The High Commission is maintained by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Barbados and houses the head-office of the Barbados Maritime Ship Registry (BMSR). The present High Commissioner is Hugh Anthony Arthur, appointed on September 1, 2009, and who replaced Lawrence Edwin Pollard.