Tottenham Court Road
North of Torrington Place, Tottenham Court (and hence also St Pancras) occupied both the east and west sides of the road.
The manor is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral.
After changing hands several times, the manor was leased for 99 years to Queen Elizabeth I, and it came to be popularly called Tottenham Court.
[2] During the period leading up to and during the First World War, an amusement arcade that contained a miniature rifle-shooting range called Fairyland was at No.
In 1909, Madan Lal Dhingra practised shooting here prior to his assassination of Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie.
[13] Other residents of India House and members of Abhinav Bharat practised shooting at the range and rehearsed assassinations they planned to carry out.
[16] The new two-way traffic flows on Tottenham Court Road and the surrounding streets were fully completed in March 2021.
The Elizabeth line, which opened in 2022, is expected to increase passenger traffic at Tottenham Court Road station by 40 per cent.
[18] On 3 June 2014, Camden Council announced plans to reserve the road for buses and bicycles only, during daylight hours from Monday to Saturday.
The council claimed it would make the street safer and boost business ahead of the opening of the new Elizabeth line station.
Wider pavements, cycle lanes and safer pedestrian crossings would also be installed as part of the £26m plan.
In the early twenty-first century, the growth of e-commerce has reduced the importance of electronics retailing in the area, and cafes and fashion stores like Primark have become more prevalent.
[22] Whilst Tottenham Court Road still has some specialist furniture and electronics retailers, it is becoming more of a general business district.
[18] Opposite Habitat and Heal's is a small public open space called Whitfield Gardens, occupying the former site of a chapel.
On the side of a house is a painting, the "Fitzrovia Mural", which is about 20 metres (over 60 feet) high and shows many people at work and at leisure.
Each is about five feet (1.5 m) high, with two sides showing a collage of people associated with the area, from satirical cartoonist William Hogarth to the popular singer Boy George.
William Hogarth's painting The March of the Guards to Finchley is set outside the Adam and Eve at the northwest end of Tottenham Court Road.
[8] Pink Floyd played many early concerts at the UFO Club at 31 Tottenham Court Road, where they were the house band.
It is featured briefly in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling when Harry and his friends are escaping from Death Eaters; in Robert Golbraith's CB Strike mystery series it is featured in the first five novels; in Diana Gabaldon's novel The Fiery Cross (Outlander series) it is featured in character Roger McKenzie's flashback/forward of 1960s London; in The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins; in Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; in Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie; in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw; and in Saturday and Atonement by Ian McEwan.
It is mentioned briefly as the location where 'I' was allegedly arrested for 'toilet trading' in the 1986 Bruce Robinson cult-classic movie Withnail and I.
In the Lerner-Loewe musical My Fair Lady, Tottenham Court Road is mentioned as the place where Eliza Doolittle sells her flowers.
