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At the corner of Hatton Garden was the old family department store of Gamages. Until 1992, the London Weather Centre was located in the street. The Prudential insurance company relocated in 2002. The Daily Mirror offices used to be directly opposite it, but the site is now occupied by Sainsbury's head office.
Holborn Town Hall, Gray's Inn Road. Holborn was a local government district in the metropolitan area of London to the north west of the City of London from 1855 to 1900. The district was formed by the Metropolis Management Act 1855 from the following Middlesex civil parishes and places: [ 4 ]
The People's Supermarket is a community interest company whose stated aim is to provide the local community with good cheap food that is fair to consumers and producers. It was founded in May 2010 by Arthur Potts Dawson with regeneration advisor/entrepreneur David Barrie and retail specialist Kate Wickes-Bull, supported by a team of supporters and professional advisors, in Lamb's Conduit ...
In 1867 a new vestry hall was completed on the site, fronting City Road. [2] The workhouse infirmary became the Holborn and Finsbury Institution in 1916. In 1930 it was taken over by the London County Council and was renamed the St Matthew's Hospital in 1936. World War II bomb damage destroyed the southernmost block, which was never fully ...
Hatton Garden is a street and commercial zone in the Holborn district of the London Borough of Camden, abutting the narrow precinct of Saffron Hill which then abuts the City of London. It takes its name from Sir Christopher Hatton , a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I , who established a mansion here and gained possession of the garden and orchard ...
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Saffron Hill looking south in 2006 A map showing the Saffron Hill ward of Holborn Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1952. Saffron Hill is a street and former ward in Holborn , in the south eastern corner of the London Borough of Camden , between Farringdon Road and Hatton Garden .
The works were carried out by John Greenwood Limited and the new town hall was officially opened by the Lord Mayor, Sir George Truscott, on 13 October 1908. [4] A wrought-iron balcony bearing a borough coat of arms made by the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts was installed in the middle of the central section on the first floor. [ 5 ]