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Cora Pearl is a friendly, intimate restaurant with fantastic food and warm, knowledgable service. Excellent for a quiet lunch or a atmospheric, vibrant dinner, we are proud to be a TOP 100 restaurant, and a critics' favourite. Cora Pearl was a Nineteenth Century courtesan who started her career in Covent Garden and ended up as the Queen of Parisian nightlife. She was both notorious and yet very refined, able to capture the hearts, and fortunes, of both naïve young bloods and seasoned statesmen alike. Famed for her wit and her lithe sensuality, she bathed in onyx baths and had herself presented at dinner parties on a huge silver platter with parsley covering her bits! She also became a wonderful saviour to wounded and dying soldiers during the Siege of Paris by the Prussians in 1870, turning her palace on the Champs Elysee into a hospital. After this she returned to England, famously being ejected from the Grosvenor Hotel by a manager furious to discover that the ‘Lady' who'd been staying there in luxury for a week was actually the notorious courtesan, Cora Pearl. She wrote her memoirs to try and boost her dwindling income, and finally died in 1886. What a life!

Ellis Brigham Mountain Sports is UK's top retail stores for outdoor, ski and mountaineering clothing and equipment with an 80 year family history. Beginning life in 1933 Manchester, Frederick Ellis Brigham made walking boots and cycling shoes. As mountaineering and climbing took off after the war, Brigham increased his range to include French and Italian boots used in the alpine valleys. Their first catalogue was published in the 60s which featured clothing, footwear and equipment for mountaineering, rock climbing, camping and skiing which was beginning to gain a following. Setting a standard for the outdoor retail marketplace, Ellis Brigham stores were the first in the UK to stock snowboards as the sport took off in the 80s. Continuing strong relationships with outdoor brands such as Berghaus and The North Face, Ellis Brigham has opened over 20 stores nationwide with fa workforce who are all passionate about the outdoors and understand implicitly your needs. Ellis Brigham's shops really do bring the spirit of the mountains to the high street so check them out, they have mountains of experience! Ellis Brigham Mountain Sports in Covent Garden spans two large floors and stocks an extensive range of all ski, snowboard and mountain trek and travel brands. The store stocks the most comprehensive range of specialist products and some of the most knowledgeable staff in the industry, it is also home to an indoor Ice climbing wall!

Set the Scene: In the search for Tewksbury, Enola deduces that his love of flowers would take him to the only place in London he would go to and of course her search takes her to Covent Garden Market.

Set the Scene: Whilst on the way to visit Mary's eccentric cousin Topsy, the children, Jack and Mary fly down Chandos Place loaded up on Jack's bike before arriving at Goodwin's Court. A topsy turvy turning turtle ensues before they leave the bowl in the careful hands of Topsy to get fixed.