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This project was completed in 1737 and included corridors connecting the Treasury building with 10 Downing Street allowing Walpole, as Chancellor of the Exchequer as well as First Lord of the Treasury, direct and convenient access to the Treasury offices. In effect the Treasury building became an annex of 10 Downing Street and its staff worked ...
Number 10 Downing Street, including the House at the Back: 1735 and After Between 1733 and 1735, the architect William Kent , under a commission from Sir Robert Walpole, combined Litchfield House and one of the Downing Street townhouses into one house, known since as Number 10 Downing Street, officially the residence of the First Lord of the ...
The main lectern, paid for by the government, cost £4,175 to make [4] and was used for two addresses to the nation at 10 Downing Street, including the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the dismissal of Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor of the Exchequer. [8] [13] On her first day in office, the lectern was covered in a black bin bag due to the rain. [6]
Visitors' books from Downing Street signed by some of the most famous figures in recent history have been made public for the first time. World leaders and members of the Royal Family are among ...
The path edge of the garden at Downing Street. The garden of 10 and 11 Downing Street is an L-shaped garden, 1 ⁄ 2 acre (0.2 ha) in size, behind the official residences of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 10 and 11 Downing Street in the Whitehall district of the City of Westminster in central London.
Downing Street is a street in Westminster in London that houses the official residences and offices of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In a cul-de-sac situated off Whitehall , it is 200 metres (660 ft) long, and a few minutes' walk from the Houses of Parliament .
The last time Mr Obama visited Downing Street was eight years ago in 2016. The former president met with then prime minister David Cameron at Number 10 for talks ahead of the Brexit vote.
Colville kept a diary from 1939 to 1957, parts of which have been published (The Fringes of Power: 10 Downing Street Diaries 1939–1955).The original diaries are held at the Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge University and, with the exception of the final volume, are open to the public.