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The new building, which was designed by A. Green in the Modernist style, opened as "Crown House" in 1962. [5] The design involved a 15-storey curved structure with layers of continuous concrete panels above and below a continuous row of glass windows on each floor: the whole structure was 49.4 metres (162 ft) high. [ 5 ]
The council is based at Merton Civic Centre on London Road in Morden. The building began as a 15-storey office block that was privately built as 'Crown House', opening in 1962. [21] The council moved into the building in 1985, having previously been based at Wimbledon Town Hall. [22]
Morden is a district and town in South London, England, now within the London Borough of Merton, in the ceremonial county of Greater London. It adjoins Merton Park and Wimbledon to the north, Mitcham to the east, Sutton to the south and Worcester Park to the west, and is around 8 miles (13 km) south-southwest of Charing Cross.
Initially, the new administrative centre was at Wimbledon Town Hall, but it moved to the 14-storey Crown House in Morden in the early 1990s. It is now the Parliamentary constituency of Wimbledon, and since 2024 has been represented by Paul Kohler, a Liberal Democrat MP.
Crosse & Blackwell employed 4,700 workers in production and 1,900 other employees and salespeople at the time of the acquisition. For a while, its head office was in Crown House, Morden, south-west London. The brand was later owned by Premier Foods. A prominent member of the founder's family is Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records.
The new documentary claims to tell the behind-the-scenes story of the ‘lives, loves and scandals’ of the royal family
City Tower, Manchester (formerly Sunley House) Bernard Sunley & Sons was a British property development company. It was founded in 1940 as Bernard Sunley & Son by Bernard Sunley (1910–1964) who "ranked alongside the most successful property developers of the 1950s property boom". [1] The company was dissolved in 2011. [2]
However, it became surplus to requirements after the council moved to Crown House in Morden in 1985. [11] Following three planning inquiries, the assembly hall at the rear was demolished in the late 1980s, to make way for the Centre Court Shopping Centre. [2]