Covent Garden Community Association: Complete Annual Report 2000 2001

Covent Garden London

The heart of London's West End

Covent Garden in old photographs

Having spent two years in Australia, working partly in advertising and partly in publishing as an art director, I arrived back in the UK in April 1972 and found myself a tiny office in Rose Street, Covent Garden to carry on working.

It didn't take long for me to realise the importance of the area. The atmosphere was wonderful, it was just like being in a huge green grocers shop. It was then that I discovered that such a fabulous environment would so soon be condemned. I made contact with some publishing friends and put the proposition to them that a book be published to make a record of what was there.

Armed with rolls of the new 400 ASA high speed Ecktachrome, I made regular 5am trips to catch the early light and atmosphere. I wanted to use colour as well as black and white to capture the vivid surroundings and I'm glad I did - it's the only collection of colour photographs known to the CGCA to date.

Unfortunately, the book was never published in the end, so when I finished taking photographs in 1973, I packed the transparencies and negatives away for posterity. But then last year, I was showing them to some friends at the Mission Gallery in Notting Hill. They loved them and decided to put them on show in an exhibition they were holding of disappearing London.

One of the people I invited to the show was John Bos from the CGCA. He showed great interest in them and asked me to exhibit them as part of their 30th Anniversary celebrations. It seemed to be a wonderful opportunity to help an organisation that has been central to preserving Covent Garden as we know it today.

As a result, 60 of my pictures are on show in the gallery at the Royal Opera House from 8th June-18th August. The rest of my images can be viewed on the CGCA website, www.coventgarden.org.uk. All of them are for sale with a percentage of the profits donated to the CGCA.

Nigel Dicker

Covent Garden Community Association Annual Report 2000-2001

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