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The Seven Dials Trust is complying with government advice and all our projects requiring in-person contact are currently on hold.
In the meantime, we continue to work on those things which can be done in isolation, including the Seven Dials Renaissance Study and our company website.
We were deeply saddened to hear of the death of Trust Patron Frank Dobson. Frank was a great supporter of the Trust and our work over many years. His wit and many words of advice will be missed by us all.
Trust chairman David Bieda says: “We were close friends for almost 50 years, and I shall miss his friendship, wit and wide-ranging knowledge.”
The 30th celebrated on Saturday 29th June 2019
with a Community Festival event in and around the Dials
June 29th, 2019 was the 30th anniversary of the new Seven Dials Sundial Pillar, unveiled by HM Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands as the finalé of the year-long William & Mary Tercentenary (1989).
The Trust has created a new exhibition titled 'Seven Dials Renaissance 1971–2019' to celebrate the conservation & regeneration of Seven Dials and Covent Garden since 1971.
We’re delighted to have received sponsorship for two People’s Plaques through Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s locally-based companies, The Really Useful group and LW Theatres Group Ltd.
You may have noticed the work currently going on in Neal Street to replace the large number of differing street lights with the Trust’s Covent Garden Lantern® and bracket – extending the scheme of façade lights in Seven Dials – the first phase of which was completed in 2014 – to the surrounding areas.
Just before Christmas 2018 we installed the first of the Seven Dials History Plaques – in Earlham Street, Short’s Gardens, Mercer Street and on The Dials.
The Trust's latest People's Plaque was unveiled on 26th July. Aptly, in this year of celebrating women's suffrage, it commemorates two pioneering women - Zepherina Veitch and Dame Rosalind Paget DBE, ARRC. The plaque is sited at what is now The Hospital Club, in Endell Street, which was the British Lying-In Hospital (London's first dedicated maternity hospital), built in 1849 and operational until 1913. This is where both Veitch and Paget, already nurses, trained as midwives.
Project Brochure:
People's Plaques Project Brochure. (PDF)
If you would like a printed copy of the brochure please do ask.
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