NEWS Spring 2008:

• The Covent Garden Area Trust is based in a charming, small listed building: 13 New Row, Covent Garden, London WC2E 4LF.
  Our phone number is 020 7497 9245; fax: 020 7240 2405;
  e-mail: admin@cgareatrust.org.uk
  
  
• “Caring for Covent Garden - a Management and Conservation Guide” was published in May 2004. For more information on the new, up-to-date version of the Trust’s Environmental Study of Central Covent Garden (originally published 1997), please click here
  
  
• Mike Pargiter, the Trust’s long-serving Company Secretary died on 4 April 2008. Read his obituary and the eulogy which was written by Leana Pooley, former Administrator of the Trust.
  
  
• A beautiful lady returns to Covent Garden - the Coade stone statue of Flora is restored to the central Market building.
  
  
• A memorial to Covent Garden Market’s fruit and vegetable traders has been unveiled. Click here to view an account of the event.

• Trust’s next Rent Ceremony - 18 June 2009. Plus information and pictures of previous Rent Ceremonies (1994-2007 by photographer, Sheila Burnett):
  1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007and 2008.

• World famous Covent Garden Market - who owns it?

• Look for the Trust’s plaques in Covent Garden commemorating:

  1. Dennis Johnson, inventor of the Hobbyhorse, an early type of bicycle.

  2. The working Donkeys of Covent Garden

  Donkey Plaque unveiling ceremony 4 Oct 2000
  
  

Covent Garden Area Trust
13 New Row, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4LF
Tel: 020 7497 9245
Fax: 020 7240 2405
Registered Charity no. 299874