Seven Dials Covent Garden is a unique quarter of London whose star-shaped layout remains as constructed in the early 1690s. 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.

Max Reinhardt's successful fifty-year career in British book publishing culminated in The Bodley Head Press which he bought with a loan from the actor Ralph Richardson and  persuaded J. B. Priestley and Graham Greene to join his board of directors. 

Stephen Rimbault was one of the greatest clockmakers of the eighteenth century. Of Huguenot descent, he was based in Seven Dials from 1760-81.

Born in the Black Horse Inn on Long Acre, Thomas Stothard RA was one of the foremost history painters of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He is also remembered as the most prolific book illustrator of the time. 

Dudley Court on Endell Street and Short's Gardens covers the site of the St Giles parish workhouse 'baleful institution', into which were crammed over 900 paupers.