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The street continues as North Gower Street north of Euston Road, while to the south it becomes Bloomsbury Street. University College London (UCL) and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) are located along Gower Street as is part of University College Hospital .
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A revised scheme under the name of the London Central Railway (LCR) was approved in 1871. The proposals included an interchange at Gower Street with the LCR's platforms north of and parallel to the MR's. [14] LCR branches would have connected from east of Gower Street to Euston and St Pancras stations. As before, the LCR was unable to raise ...
In the late 19th century the site at 140 Gower Street was occupied by a modest three-story building which was used by George J. W. Pitman, book publishers. [1] Then in the first half of the 20th century the same building was used for the secondhand book section [2] of H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., book sellers.
Gower Street station was opened in 1863 by the Metropolitan Railway (MR), the world's first underground railway, and was renamed “Euston Square” tube station in 1909. [ 4 ] In 1870 the main line station was rebuilt with a formal layout, and two Portland stone classical style entrance lodges were erected on Euston Road to frame the approach ...
The UCL Main Building is the centre of the UCL campus South Cloisters North Cloisters, UCL (1980s) The UCL Front Quad, part of the main campus, in front of the Slade School of Fine Art and the Main Building housing the Library, the astronomy shed is to the right with a sliding roof
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Henry King Lewis plaque at 136 Gower Street. H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd. was founded in 1844 by Henry King Lewis (born 10 February 1823 in Margate, died 30 January 1898 in Hastings) [1] [2] at 15 Gower Street as a small bookselling and stationery business. [3] In the 1871 census he had expanded his business and become a publisher.