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The Imperial War Museum (IWM), currently branded "Imperial War Museums", is a British national museum.It is headquartered in London, with five branches in England. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, it was intended to record the civil and military war effort and sacrifice of the United Kingdom and its Empire during the First World War.
Maintained by the London Borough of Southwark, it is bounded by Lambeth Road, Kennington Road, St George's Road and Brook Drive. [1] It covers an area of 5.9 hectares (15 acres). [2] The grounds of the park surround its central feature, the Imperial War Museum London. [3]
The borough hosts the main site of the Imperial War Museum at the south end of Borough High Street. [28] Peckham Library, designed by Will Alsop won the Stirling Prize for modern architecture. Another architecturally innovative library designed by Piers Gough, Canada Water Library opened in 2011. [29]
Imperial War Museum London: Southwark: Southwark: South East: Military: Warfare in the 20th and 21st centuries Inns of Court & City Yeomanry Museum: Lincoln's Inn: Camden: North: Military: Regimental history and artefacts of the Inns of Court & City Yeomanry (by appointment only) Institute of Archaeology Collections: Bloomsbury: Camden: North ...
The Telegraph Tower, in 1810. West Square has the following entry in Volume XXV of the Survey of London, published in 1955 by the then London County Council: [1] "The largest of the several plots of ground in St George's Fields which belonged in the mid-18th century to Henry Bartelote and then to the West family was the close lying south of St George's Road, between Moulton's Close (the ...
Imperial War Museum off St George's Road. St George's Road is a one-way road in Southwark, London running between Westminster Bridge Road to the northwest and Elephant and Castle to the southeast. The direction of the vehicular traffic is from Elephant and Castle to Westminster Bridge Road.
Southwark is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as Sudweca. ... both St George's Cathedral and the Imperial War Museum are within the ancient boundaries, ...
Southwark Park: 26.57 hectares (65.7 acres) [16] opened 1869, one of the earliest opened by the Metropolitan Board of Works: gardens, sports facilities; Sydenham Hill Wood: 9.39 hectares (23.2 acres) [17] remains of the Great North Wood. Tabard Gardens: 1.762 hectares (4.35 acres) [18] The centre of the following squares are laid to gardens: