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The Shell Centre in London is the global headquarters of oil major Shell plc. It is located on Belvedere Road in the London Borough of Lambeth . It is a prominent feature on the South Bank of the River Thames near County Hall , and now forms the backdrop to the London Eye .
Broadcasting House in London is the headquarters and registered office of the BBC. Waterside, the head office of British Airways An Eat restaurant on Charing Cross Road, London Floris of London is the oldest English retailer of toiletries and accessories and second oldest in the world after Farina gegenüber of Cologne, Germany.
Holborn (/ ˈ h oʊ b ər n / ⓘ HOH-bərn or / ˈ h oʊ l b ər n /), an area in central London, covers the south-eastern part of the London Borough of Camden and a part (St Andrew Holborn Below the Bars) of the Ward of Farringdon Without in the City of London.
Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place was a liberty and from 1866 to 1930 a civil parish in the metropolitan area of London, England. [1] It was part of the ancient parish of St Andrew Holborn. The southern boundary was the street now called Holborn, the western boundary was Leather Lane.
Holborn Town Hall, built in 1894, still exists, on High Holborn, and still has the coat of arms in the façade. [2] The entrance gate piers to the church of St Giles-in-the-Fields commemorate the Borough when it was amalgamated in 1965, and bear an inscription to this effect, although the arch that bore the borough's arms has since been removed.
Ship Tavern, Holborn. The Ship Tavern is an inn at the western corner of Lincoln's Inn Fields, at the corner of Gate Street and the Little Turnstile in London. Established in 1549, at the height of the English Reformation, when Catholicism became illegal, it was used to shelter Catholic priests and hold secret Catholic services.
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 Liberty of Glasshouse Yard; The Liberty of Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and ...
The Little and Great Turnstiles are the paths on either side of the row of houses on the south side of Houlburne in the 1561 woodcut map of London. [2] The Tregaskis book shop, "The Caxton Head", on the corner of the New Turnstile and High Holborn The Ship Tavern is a 16th-century public house on the corner of Little Turnstile and Gate Street.