Drury Lane UK's largest retailers.<br> 182 Drury Lane was the location of The Arts Lab in the 1960s<br> 191 Drury Lane was the location of the Workers' Educational Society in 1847/48. The street Drury Lane is where The Muffin Man lives, as mentioned in the popular nursery rhyme, and where the harlot of William Hogarth's "A Harlot's Progress" practises her profession. Drury Lane Drury Lane is a street on the eastern boundary of the Covent Garden area of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn. The northern part is in the borough of Camden and the southern part in the City of
Muffin the Mule in 1933 by Punch and Judy puppet maker Fred Tickner for husband-and-wife puppeteers Jan Bussell (1909-1984) and Ann Hogarth to form part of a puppet circus for the Hogarth Puppet Theatre. The act was soon put away, and the puppet was not taken out again until 1946, when Bussell and Hogarth were working with presenter Annette Mills. She named the puppet mule "Muffin", and it first appeared on television in an edition of "For the Children" broadcast on 20 October 1946. The character proved popular, and ran on BBC television until 1955. Typically, Muffin danced on top of a piano