A Covent Garden Christmas

* Season’s Greetings 2015 *

[Photographs taken in December 2015]

1. Christmas tree outside St Paul’s Church,

Covent Garden, London

2. Covent Garden ‘Apple Market’ barrows

(At the entrance to the former indoor fruit market)

3. The Covent Garden indoor ‘Apple Market’

(Seasonally decorated by large artificial mistletoe)

Formerly London’s fruit and vegetable market

Traders now sell antiques, collectables, art works, etc

4. Reindeer street decoration

(The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is in the background)

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During WW2, London’s main fruit and vegetable market remained at Covent Garden as it had done since 1670. In 1973 the fruit and vegetable market moved to New Covent Garden at Nine Elms, S.W. London about 3 miles (c. 5 kilometres) from its original site.

Between 1973 and 1980 the original Covent Garden was redeveloped as a popular shopping, tourist, theatrical and entertainment district, as seen in the photographs above. Christmastime at Covent Garden in 2015 was rather different to Christmastime during the Second World War, especially that of December 1940 when London was being bombed on most nights. 

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