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Victoria House is a neoclassical building in Bloomsbury, London, WC1. It stands on a long rectangular island site between the east side of Bloomsbury Square and Southampton Row . It became a Grade II listed building in December 1990.
Victoria House from Southampton Row. Victoria House in Bloomsbury Square, London, was built for Liverpool Victoria in the 1920s and remained its head office until the company relocated to Bournemouth in 1996. [36]
The eastern side of the square is occupied by a large early 20th-century office building called Victoria House, built for, and for many decades occupied by, Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society. The garden is open to the public and was refurbished in 2003. The garden is Grade II listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. [5]
J. Lyons & Co. was a British restaurant chain store, food manufacturing, and hotel conglomerate founded in 1884 by Joseph Lyons and his brothers in law, Isidore and Montague Gluckstein. Lyons' first teashop opened in Piccadilly , London in 1894, and from 1909 they developed into a chain of teashops , with the firm becoming a staple of the High ...
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Southampton Row campus at the junction with Theobald's Road. Blue plaque for the architect William Lethaby (1857–1931), a key figure in the foundation of the original Central School. Southern end of Southampton Row looking south from the junction with Theobald's Road.
Victoria House may refer to: Victoria House, Greenwich, a historic school building originally constructed in 1909 for the Royal Army Medical Corps; Victoria House, London, a building on Bloomsbury Square, constructed in the 1920s; Victoria House (Victoria University of Wellington), a residential college in New Zealand, established 1907 ...
Victoria Station was a chain of railroad-themed steakhouse restaurants. At the peak of its popularity in the 1970s, the chain had 100 locations in the United States. The firm filed for bankruptcy in 1986. The last remaining restaurant in the former chain was located in Salem, Massachusetts until it abruptly closed in December 2017. [1]
The life-size statues of four Queens - Elizabeth I, Mary II, Anne and Victoria [4] - above the main entrance were the work of the sculptor Henry Charles Fehr. The façade, by Doll, incorporates the coats of arms of the world's nations (as they were in 1898) in the spandrels of the first floor.