Designed by C. J. Phipps. The picture is taken from Cockspur Street. The building was badly bombed in 1940. Compare and contrast this ornate building with New Zealand House (1963) which is there now.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Carlton Hotel, Haymarket
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Ho Chi Minh
Wikipedia questions the veracity of this plaque, while acknowledging that Ho ...
Royal Opera Arcade
The "plaque" is actually a very dull modern notice inside the arcade so for o...
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Alfred Phillips
Composer, publisher, piano dealer. Alfred William Phillips was born in Whitechapel to a family in 'trade', one of which was a music shop, where he learnt piano tuning. When he started his own busin...
Henry Clarke
Businessman and politician. He was a coal importer and commission merchant in Gracechurch Street. When the first London County Council elections were held in 1889, he became one of four councillors...
H. Lawrence
Director of the Brilliant Sign Company in 1938.
Bankers Clearing House
Cheque & Credit Clearing Company (or, in the form of a booklet) is very helpful: "Daily cheque clearings began around 1770 when the bank clerks met at the Five Bells, a tavern in Lombard Street...
Coal Hole Tavern
The meeting place of the Wolf Club of which in about 1826 Edmund Kean was a leading member. Lawrence Silverman tells us that, later, this was the tavern where Renton Nicholson staged his very rude...
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London School of Tropical Medicine
This school was founded in 1899 at the Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital by Patrick Manson, the Chief Medical Officer to the Colonial Office. The School moved to he Endsleigh Gardens site in 1920. The ...
Christ Church, Lambeth
The photo, c.1910, shows the complex of buildings. Damaged in WW2 the church was demolished sometime before 1958, all but the tall Lincoln Tower.
English Heritage
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places. These include prehistoric sites, medieval castles, Roman forts,...
City Pest House
From Islington:The Pest House was built in 1594, in the fields where Bath Street is now situated. It served to isolate those suffering from such incurable or infectious diseases as leprosy and the ...
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