Store Street is a street in
Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London, part of the London Borough of Camden in England. It is considered a fashionable residential area, and is the location of numerous cultural institution, cultural, intellectual, and educational ...
, London.
Location
Store Street runs between
Gower Street and
Tottenham Court Road
Tottenham Court Road (occasionally abbreviated as TCR) is a major road in Central London, almost entirely within the London Borough of Camden.
The road runs from Euston Road in the north to St Giles Circus in the south; Tottenham Court Road tu ...
. It is joined by
Ridgmount Street
Ridgmount Street is a street in Bloomsbury, London.
Location
Ridgmount Street runs from Chenies Street in the north to Store Street, London, Store Street in the south. It runs parallel with Gower Street, London, Gower Street and Alfred Place. R ...
on its north side. Store Street runs parallel with
Chenies Street and
Alfred Place joins the two. South Crescent is on the south side of Store Street which mirrors North Crescent on the north side of Chenies Street.
Buildings
The street is made up mainly of offices with a parade of small shops on the south side between the eastern end of South Crescent and Gower Street. It also houses
The University of Law's London Bloomsbury campus.
The former Bloomsbury Petrol Station on the corner of Ridgmount Street was subject to an award-winning redevelopment.
The Store Street Music Hall was once located at number 16.
Inhabitants
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft ( , ; 27 April 175910 September 1797) was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional ...
(1759–1797) lived in Store Street in 1837 while writing her pioneering ''
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
''A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects'' , is a 1792 feminist essay written by British philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), and is one of the earliest work ...
'' (1792).
[Williams, George G. Assisted by Marian and Geoffrey Williams. (1973) ''Guide to Literary London''. London: ]Batsford
Batsford is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Cotswold (district), Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. The village is about north-west of Moreton-in-Marsh. There is a falconry centre close to the village ...
, p. 134.
Thomas King (1730–1805), actor and theatrical impresario, died at his home in New Store Street in 1805.
[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]
Dr. Crippen lived at 34–37 Store St before moving to 39 Hilldrop Crescent where he murdered his wife.
References
External links
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Streets in the London Borough of Camden
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