page_title: Great Queen Street
section_title: Residents and businesses
hierarchical_section_title: Great Queen Street / Residents and businesses
caption_attribution_description: English: Freemasons’ Hall, headquarters of the United Grand Lodge of England, located in Great Queen Street, with Camden benches in foreground. Deutsch: Freemasons’ Hall in London, Sitz der Vereinigten Großloge von England.
context_page_description: Great Queen Street is a street in the West End of central London in England. It is a continuation of Long Acre from Drury Lane to Kingsway. It runs from 1 to 44 along the north side, east to west, and 45 to about 80 along the south side, west to east. The street straddles and connects the Covent Garden and Holborn districts and is in the London Borough of Camden. It is numbered B402.
context_section_description: At 72 is the Kingsway Hall Hotel.
  At 31 Great Queen Street lived James Basire, a member of the Society of Antiquaries who took on William Blake as an apprentice in 1772. Between 1837 and 1840, the painter Richard Dadd lived in Great Queen Street while studying at the Royal Academy.  Shanks and Co. ran their well-known coachbuilding business at 70–71 Great Queen Street from the 1850s, becoming F & R Shanks in 1860. The business moved out of Great Queen Street around 1905.  The Shanks coachworks was located in 'New Yard'; this land was sold to the Freemasons around 1920 to build the Freemasons' Hall.
  From 1882 to 1959 the Novelty Theatre (later renamed the Great Queen Street Theatre and the Kingsway Theatre) was on Great Queen Street.
  At 56–58 lived James Boswell, lawyer, diarist and author.
  Opposite Freemason's Hall was one of the "feature sites" for the Camden bench when it was first introduced.
caption: Camden benches outside Freemasons' Hall in Great Queen Street
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