Bloomsbury Square - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The second movement of Symphony No 2 (A London Symphony) by Vaughan Williams represents "Bloomsbury Square on a November Afternoon".
  • In the musical Oliver!, Mr. Brownlow lives on Bloomsbury Square, while in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, on which the musical is based, he lives in Pentonville.

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