Seven Dials Covent Garden is a unique quarter of London whose star-shaped layout remains as constructed in the early 1690s. By 1974 the Seven Dials area was in a state of dereliction. It was brought back to life largely through the dedication of the Seven Dials Trust, working in partnership with the local authorities and landowners for nearly forty years.

The 19th century artist Nathaniel Westlake specialised in stained glass and was a leading designer of the Gothic Revival movement. 

The British Lying-In Hospital was London's first dedicated maternity hospital. Midwifery pioneers and campaigners Zepherina Veitch and Dame Rosalind Paget trained there and went on to establish midwifery as a profession.