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The Thames at Horseferry by Jan Griffier, showing Lambeth Palace at right and St Paul's Cathedral in the distance. The south end of Horseferry road, facing south, October 2007 Horseferry Road is a street in the City of Westminster in central London running between Millbank and Greycoat Place and designated part of the B323 road, along with ...
A proposal has been made to recombine Norwest House and Nobel House, and convert then to the block and Ergon House, the adjacent building to the west along Horseferry Road, to residential use. Lambeth Bridge seen from Albert Embankment, looking north, downstream. Thames House and then Imperial Chemical House are on the far left.
Thames House is an office building in Millbank, London, on the north bank of the River Thames adjacent to Lambeth Bridge. Originally used as offices by Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), it has served as the headquarters of the United Kingdom's internal Security Service (commonly known as MI5) since December 1994.
The London County Council prepared a masterplan for the area, including a replacement road bridge linking to a widened Horseferry Road, which was authorised by London County Council (Lambeth Bridge) Act 1924. Before work had started on the project, the 1928 Thames flood caused extensive
This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London district of Westminster.The Westminster area (as distinct from the Council area) has no formally defined boundaries - those utilised here are the generally accepted boundaries of: The Mall and Northumberland Avenue to the north, the river Thames and Victoria Embankment/Millbank to the east, Vauxhall Bridge Road to the south and ...
GLCC flatiron SS Suntrap, built 1929, passing Woolwich en route up the Thames in 1931. SS Suntrap was a 939 GRT flatiron built in 1929 by Hawthorn Leslie and Company of Hebburn on Tyneside. [51] On nationalisation in 1949 she passed to North Thames Gas Board, who in 1954 sold her to the Ouse Steam Ship Company, who renamed her Sunfleet. [51]
The 1928 Thames flood was a disastrous flood of the River Thames that affected much of riverside London on 7 January 1928, as well as places further downriver. Fourteen people died and thousands were made homeless when floodwaters poured over the top of the Thames Embankment and part of the Chelsea Embankment collapsed.
It was originally called Horseferry Road Magistrates' Court, after the road in which it was sited. [1] However, it was renamed in July 2006 following the closure of Bow Street Magistrates' Court . It served as the court where the Chief Magistrate of England and Wales sat, and all extradition and terrorism-related cases passed through the court.