Royal College Street
Royal College Street is a major thoroughfare in London, England in the Borough of Camden.
The street is home to the London HQ of Parcel Force and the London campus of the Royal Veterinary College, a constituent college of the University of London.
The area has some notable past literary residents. No 8 Royal College Street (then known as Great College Street) is commemorated as the former residence of French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. Parallel to this, in 1824 Charles Dickens also lived in what is now the upper part of College Place, Camden at No. 112 (the street was then known as Little College Street).[1]
Royal College Street also features in the background of 1956 Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much, where actor James Stewart walks from here down Plender Street to 61 College Place. [2]
Camden Road railway station is located at the junction of Royal College Street and Camden Road.
The nearest underground station to Royal College Street is Camden Town tube station which is about 5 minutes to the South West along Camden Road.
References
- Footnotes
- ↑ Jolly, Emma. "Charles Dickens in Camden". Retrieved 20 April 2013.
- ↑ "The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)". Retrieved 21 April 2013.
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Coordinates: 51°32′25.5″N 0°8′14″W / 51.540417°N 0.13722°W