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Coleman Street, from which the Ward takes its name St Margaret Lothbury church. Coleman Street is a one-way road that runs from Gresham Street to London Wall. The church of St Stephen Coleman Street used to stand at the southern end of the street, on the western side, until it was completely destroyed in the Blitz and was not rebuilt.
The location, size and date of bombs dropped on Norwich were mapped by the Air Raid Precautions, as part of the UK bomb census. [3] [6] The bombs were physically mapped on 6-foot-square (1.8 m) map, created from three Ordnance Survey maps and mounted on chipboard, using 679 paper labels.
80 Coleman Street in 2014. 80 Coleman Street is an Edwardian building in the Moorgate area of the City of London, not far from the Guildhall.It was used for the offices of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology from 1999, [1] until the Institute moved to the Aldgate area.
An etching of St. Stephen's, Coleman Street (Architectural Series of London Churches, published by J. Booth, 1819). The interior was a single space, undivided by piers or columns, with a flat ceiling, [ 12 ] coved at the sides, the coving pierced by round-headed windows. [ 21 ]
Initially built as a deep-level air-raid shelter in the early 1940s, it was instead used as a government communications centre. In 1949 the General Post Office (GPO) took over the building, and in 1956 it became the UK termination point for TAT-1, the first transatlantic telephone cable. Closure of the facility began in the 1980s.
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The shelter was also used to represent parts of a secret underground facility in the vicinity of Down Street tube station in the 2005 feature film Creep. Reference is a made to a fictional deep-level air-raid shelter at Holland Park tube station in Ben Aaronovitch ’s novel Whispers Under Ground , third in the Rivers of London series.