Store Street is a street in

Bloomsbury Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London. It is considered a fashionable residential area, and is the location of numerous cultural, intellectual, and educational institutions. Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest mus ...

, London.

Location

Store Street runs between Gower Street and

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. 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 in the south. It runs parallel with Gower Street and Alfred Place. Ridgmount Place joins Ridgmount Street on ...

on its north side. Store Street runs parallel with

Chenies Street Chenies Street is a street in Bloomsbury, London, that runs between Tottenham Court Road and Gower Street. It is the location of a number of notable buildings such as Minerva House, the Drill Hall (now RADA Studios), and a memorial to The Rang ...

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 The University of Law (founded in 1962 as The College of Law of England and Wales) is a For-profit education, for-profit private university in the United Kingdom, providing law degrees, specialist legal training and Professional development, conti ...

'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 Wollstonecroft Mary Wollstonecraft (, ; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationsh ...

(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'' (1792), written by British philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), is one of the earliest works of feminist philosoph ...

'' (1792).Williams, George G. Assisted by Marian and Geoffrey Williams. (1973) ''Guide to Literary London''. London:

Batsford Batsford is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. The village is about 1½ miles north-west of Moreton-in-Marsh. There is a falconry centre close to the village and Batsford Arboretum is nearb ...

, 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 Hawley Harvey Crippen (September 11, 1862 – November 23, 1910), usually known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser. He was hanged in Pentonville Prison in London for the murder of his wife Co ...

lived at 34-37 Store St before moving to 39 Hilldrop Crescent where he murdered his wife.

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