Category Archives: Covent Garden

351 Years of Mr Punch

♦ 20/05/2013 ♦ Leave a comment

I had such a good time photographing last year’s ‘350 years of Mr Punch’ Celebrations that I decided to start my photoblog with the images I took at the event. ‘Beside the See Side’ is now 1 year old (1st post on 16thMay 2012) & I couldn’t resist returning to Covent Garden again this year …

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Happy 350th Birthday Mr Punch!

♦ 17/05/2012 ♦ 1 Comment

Clearly we just can’t get enough of the mischievous Mr Punch, which is why hordes of people (many clutching puppets) descended upon Covent Garden to join the 350 year celebrations on Saturday.  The first record of Mr Punch was made by the diarist Samuel Pepys who referred to a puppet show he had observed in …

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