Currently the address of a large Foyle’s bookshop, 107 Charing Cross, built in 1938, used to house the college for the Distributive Trades and St Martin’s School of Art.
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Throwback Thursday: 107 Charing Cross Road, London
Categories: England, London
Tags: architecture, history, london, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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Throwback Thursday: Atlas House, London
One of the last remaining Georgian office buildings in this area of London (it can be found on the corner of Cheapside and King Street in the City of London) it was designed in 1836 by Thomas Hopper. He was commissioned by the Atlas Assurance Company, a fire and life insurance company, and took inspiration from classical Italian architecture.
Categories: England, London
Tags: Alfred Waterhouse, architecture, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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Throwback Thursday: Birmingham Council House
Birmingham City Council House is an imposing building that faces onto Victoria Square. The side of the building which faces Chamberlain Street is part of the Museum and Art Gallery. The land for the building was purchased in 1853 but it wasn’t until 1879 that the building was completed following a competition which Yeoville Thomason’s design won.
Categories: Birmingham, England, West Midlands
Tags: architecture, council, council house, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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Throwback Thursday: Cunard Building, Liverpool
The Cunard Building is a Grade II listed building at Liverpool’s Pier Head – with the Royal Liver Building and Port of Liverpool Building it is one of Liverpool’s Three Graces. Construction of the building was commissioned by the Cunard Steamship Company in 1914 and building was completed in 1917.
Categories: England, Liverpool, Merseyside
Tags: architecture, cunard, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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Throwback Thursday: Port of Liverpool Building
The Port of Liverpool Building is a Grade II listed building at Pier Head in Liverpool near the Liver Building. Constructed between 1904 and 1907 for 87 years it was the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board head office. It was designed in an Edwardian Baroque style made of Portland stone.
Throwback Thursday: The Royal Liver Building, Liverpool
The Royal Liver Building is a Grade I listed building at Liverpool’s Pier Head. In 1907 the Royal Liver Group decided it needed a new headquarters and the Pier Head was chosen with building beginning in 1908 and the official opening taking place in 1911.
Categories: England, Liverpool, Merseyside
Tags: architecture, clock, liver birds, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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Throwback Thursday: The Lloyd’s Building, London
The Lloyd’s building, sometimes referred to as the Inside Out Building, for obvious reasons, is the headquarters of the insurers Lloyd’s of London.
Categories: England, London
Tags: architecture, history, lloyd's building, photo post, war memorial
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Throwback Thursday: Climbing Boys, Sculptural Lamp Post, Chelsea Embankment
Dating from 1874 this granite green painted plinth with a design of oak leaves and acorns with two climbing boys is just by Albert Bridge on Chelsea Embankment in London.
Categories: England, London
Tags: architecture, Chelsea, Chelsea Embankment, lamp post, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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Throwback Thursday: 162 – 164 Bishopsgate
Opposite Liverpool Street Station in London, 162-164 Bishopsgate was built as a fire station in 1885 in a pastiche of the Tudor Gothic style using red brick and Portland stone. A really stunning building with some intricate decoration well above eye level.
Throwback Thursday: Mersey Chambers, Liverpool
Mersey Chambers in Liverpool was built for the Harrison Shipping Line in 1878 and is now a Grade II listed building.
Categories: England, Liverpool, Merseyside
Tags: architecture, Mersey Chambers, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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