“Today the Covent Garden Area Trust is 14 years old. Join us as we
march around the Piazza!” Peter Moore, London’s Town Crier, was joined
by children from Covent Garden’s two primary schools. Six children from
St Clement Danes and six from St Joseph's took turns to carry the Trust’s
“rents” of five red apples and five posies of flowers. Daisy,
a West Highland terrier belonging to the Trust’s Company Secretary, looks
keen to set off.
Around
the Piazza they go, past the magnificent old church of St Paul’s designed
by Inigo Jones and built in the 1630s by the Duke of Bedford.
The jazz band led by
Trustee Tim Wacher (right) swings past the Royal Opera House arcade.
The “rents”
are paid to Timothy Legge and Simon Radford of Atlantic Fund Management. They
look after the terrace of historic buildings on the west of James Street,
Covent Garden. The pretty bouquets and ivy-festooned apples were designed
by florist Sophie Hanna and donated to the Trust by New Covent Garden Market.
Inside
the Central Market three more “rents” are paid - for the Market,
the Bedford Chambers block and for the Museums block. They are accepted by
Helen Griffin of Henderson Global and Andrew Hyder of Scottish Widows. Henderson
Global and Scottish Widows have formed a partnership - the Covent Garden Market
Limited Partnership - which owns the freehold of many of the buildings around
the Piazza.
Trustees,
friends and schoolchildren celebrate afterwards in the Crusting Pipe’s courtyard
in Covent Garden Market.
And the
music goes on - Tim Wacher and his jazz musician friends play on in the
Market’s courtyard.
The acoustics are particularly good down here. It is where young opera
singers traditionally entertain visitors to the Market.
Daisy thinks “Phew!
Thank goodness that’s over. See you next year!”.
All photographs by Sheila Burnett
Covent Garden
Area Trust
13 New Row, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4LF
Tel: 020 7497 9245
Fax: 020 7240 2405
Registered Charity no. 299874
“Today the Covent Garden Area Trust is 14 years old. Join us as we
march around the Piazza!” Peter Moore, London’s Town Crier, was joined
by children from Covent Garden’s two primary schools. Six children from
St Clement Danes and six from St Joseph's took turns to carry the Trust’s
“rents” of five red apples and five posies of flowers. Daisy,
a West Highland terrier belonging to the Trust’s Company Secretary, looks
keen to set off.
Around
the Piazza they go, past the magnificent old church of St Paul’s designed
by Inigo Jones and built in the 1630s by the Duke of Bedford.
The jazz band led by
Trustee Tim Wacher (right) swings past the Royal Opera House arcade.
The “rents”
are paid to Timothy Legge and Simon Radford of Atlantic Fund Management. They
look after the terrace of historic buildings on the west of James Street,
Covent Garden. The pretty bouquets and ivy-festooned apples were designed
by florist Sophie Hanna and donated to the Trust by New Covent Garden Market.
Inside
the Central Market three more “rents” are paid - for the Market,
the Bedford Chambers block and for the Museums block. They are accepted by
Helen Griffin of Henderson Global and Andrew Hyder of Scottish Widows. Henderson
Global and Scottish Widows have formed a partnership - the Covent Garden Market
Limited Partnership - which owns the freehold of many of the buildings around
the Piazza.
Trustees,
friends and schoolchildren celebrate afterwards in the Crusting Pipe’s courtyard
in Covent Garden Market. 
And the
music goes on - Tim Wacher and his jazz musician friends play on in the
Market’s courtyard.
The acoustics are particularly good down here. It is where young opera
singers traditionally entertain visitors to the Market.
Daisy thinks “Phew!
Thank goodness that’s over. See you next year!”.