Visitor attractions and information - Bloomsbury
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The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London
WC1E 7BT. Tel: 020 7692 4000 . Providing information, inspiration
and a vital link between products, technology and design. |
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Pollocks Toy Museum, 1 Scala Street,
London, W1T 2HL. Tel: 020 7636 3452. Named after Benjamin Pollock,
a famous printer of toy theatres at the turn of the century,
Pollocks Toy Museum opened in 1956 and is dedicated to
the traditional English toy theatre. Toy theatre (or paper theatre)
was most popular in the 1800s, and consists of paper or wooden
theatres, some with an extraordinary level of detail, allowing
children to stage their own productions at home, usually with
cut-out sheets of figures for the scenery, props and various
characters in the play. About
400 yards from Bloomsbury. Gain
free entry to Pollocks Toy Museum and dozens of other London
Attractions - with
the London Pass. |
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Trades
Union Congress, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London
WC1B 3LS. Tel: 020 7636 4030. |
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The Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street,
London WC1N 2LX. Tel: 0207-405-2127. The Charles Dickens Museum
in London is the world's most important collection of material
relating to the great Victorian novelist and social commentator. |
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Thomas
Coram Foundation for Children, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N
1AZ. Tel: 020 7278 2424. |
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The Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street,
London WC1H 0AH. Tel: 020 7388 8822. |
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Cochrane
Theatre, 48, Southampton Row, London, WC1B 4AP. Tel: 020 7269
1606. |
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Dominion Theatre, 268-269 Tottenham Court
Road, London W1T 7AQ. |
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The British Museum, Great Russell Street,
London WC1B 3DG. Tel: 020 7323 8000. |
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Percival
David Foundation of Chinese Art, 53 Gordon Square, Camden, London,
WC1H. Tel: 020 7387 3909. |
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Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn
Fields, London, WC2A 3BP . |
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THE
OCTOBER GALLERY, 24 OLD GLOUCESTER STREET, BLOOMSBURY, LONDON,
WC1N 3AL. Tel: 020 7242 7367. |
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Holborn library, 32-38 Theobalds Road, London,
WC1X 8PA. Tel: 020-7974 6345. In
Holborn, south of Bloomsbury. |
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Cartoon Museum, 35 Little Russell Street,
London WC1A 2HH. Tel: 020 7580 8155. This highly entertaining
London tourist attraction covers the history and development
of British cartoons from the 18th Century to the present day.
In Bloomsbury. Gain free entry to Cartoon
Museum and
dozens of other London Attractions - with the London Pass. |
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