Drury Lane

Drury Lane is a street in Covent Garden, in the modern boroughs of Camden and the City of Westminster, London. The term may also refer to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. In the nursery rhyme "The Muffin Man," the Muffin Man lives on Drury Lane.

In London Labour and the London Poor edition:

Phase 1

No. 6, To Correspondents: "E.J.B., DRURY-LANE.—Received, with thanks."

Of the Low Lodging-Houses. (Volume 1): "'The worst I am acquainted with, though I haven’t been in it lately, is in the neighbourhood of Drury-lane—this is the worst both for filth and for the character of the lodgers. In the room where I slept, which was like a barn in size, the tiles were off the roof, and as there was no ceiling, I could see the blue sky from where I lay. That may be altered now.'"

Tom-tom Players. (Volume 3): "I don’t remember my native country, but Peter does, for he’s only been here for two years and five months. He likes his own country better than England. His father left Arabia to go to Bombay, and there he keeps large coffee-shops. He’s worth a little money. His shops are in the low quarter of the town, just the same as Drury Lane may be, though it’s the centre of the town. They call the place the Nacopoora taleemoulla."

Old Sarah (Volume 3): "I was born the 4th April, 1786 (it was Good Friday that year), at a small chandler’s shop, facing the White Horse, Stuart’s-rents, Drury-lane. Father was a hatter, and mother an artificial-flower maker and feather finisher. When I was but a day old, the nurse took me out of the warm bed and carried me to the window, to show some people how like I was to father. The cold flew to my eyes and I caught inflammation in them."

Phase 2

Of the Number of Street Stalls. (Volume 1)

Of Two Orphan Flower Girls. (Volume 1)

Of a “reduced” Gentlewoman, and a “reduced” Tradesman, as Street-sellers of Stationery. (Volume 1)

Of an Irishwoman, as a Street-Seller. (Volume 1) [as “Derwry-lane]

Of the Children Street-Sellers of London. (Volume 1)

Of the Old Clothes Exchange. (Volume 2)

The “King” of the Tumbling-Boy Crossing-Sweepers. (Volume 2)

Character of Cabdrivers. (Volume 3)

No. 21, Answers to Correspondents

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