RME0YGRM–May 05, 1970 - Covent Garden Market Goes Gay For Its 300th. Birthday Celebrations: Covent Garden, London's famous fruit, vegetable and flower market, which was royally chartered by Charles 11 exactly 300 years ago and yesterday the market had a fair to celebrate its tercentenary, Prince Philip attended the celebrations and joined in the fun. Photo shows Girls wearing Elisa Doolittle flower-seller costumes during the 300th birthday celebrations in the market yesterday. The market is to be moved to a new 30-million site at Nine Elms, Vauxhall, in 1973.
RME0W2MW–Jan. 01, 1961 - £36,000,000 scheme for a new '''Covent Garden'': A £36,000,000 scheme to shift Covent Garden Market
RME0YJ7D–Jul. 06, 1970 - Tower succumbs to Persuasion: Hours of hammering with two one-ton steel balls swung, pendulum-like from a crane, failed yesterday to knock down the last of three 120ft high, 250 ton towers of a 300 ft long granary at Nine Elms. The 36 year old building was being demolished to make way for the new market to replace Covent Garden. A workman inside a crane bucket had to cut six steel of the last fragment of a local landmark on the south bank of the Thames collapsed in a cloud of dust
RME0YJ7C–Jul. 06, 1970 - Tower Succumbs to Persuasion. Hours of hammering with two one-ton steel balls swung, pendulum-like from a crane, failed yesterday to knock down the last of three 120ft high, 250-ton towers of a 300ft long granary at Nine Elms. The 36-year old building was being demolished to make way for the new market to replace Covent Garden. A workman inside a crane bucket had to cut six steel rods with an oxy-acetylene torch before the upper section of the last fragment of a local landmark on the south bank of the Thames collapsed in a cloud of dust
RME0WG4Y–Nov. 11, 1962 - 17-11-62 The sweetest Cherry they've seen. Here is a cherry on a barrow who had the porters stopping for a second glance in London's Covent Garden Market yesterday. She's 16 year old Cherry Roland, a pop singer who has just been given the star part in Just for Fun, a new British musical film which will be a sequel to It's Trad, Dad which starred Helen Shapiro also 16 years old, Cherry's film part will earn her £250 a week until six weeks ago she was an office typist.
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