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Quite so, and Rheims and Dunkirk and Flanders and Rome. I claim no privilege for myself that I would not allow a foreigner, if a Greek calls London "Londino" it's no skin off my nose.
DuncanHill (
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17:30, 11 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Looks like
John Bercow isn't going to get a peerage. Following the report of the enquiry into his behaviour he commented (like so many before him) "Calling it a kangaroo court would be unfair to kangaroos." He was the one who denied driving around with a "F**k Brexit" banner visible through the window of his car - turned out it was his wife's car.
2A00:23C3:FB80:7C00:C495:3CE7:3180:2449 (
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13:44, 13 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Looking at a map, Temple station abuts the
Victoria Embankment Gardens, which had existed since when the School Board Building opened, and Temple Station predates both. If the statue and gardens are in the same place as in 1874 (and they might be, the Gardens look to be about the same size and shape on Google Street View as in some of the pictures and drawings of the London School Board Building), then today the site is occupied by The Globe House, a more modern building that is the home of
British American Tobacco. See picture to right. You can see
Here the red brick building immediately to its right is the same building, and still there today. --
Jayron3217:21, 11 February 2022 (UTC)reply
And checking the Wikipedia article
Temple Place confirms it. "Around the same time, Bodley and Garner's London School Board Building was erected in Temple Place. It was replaced by Electra House, the headquarters of Cable & Wireless, in 1929. It was damaged during the Second World War when on 24 July 1944 a V1 flying bomb hit the east of the building, demolishing part of it, blocking Milford Lane and trapping people in rubble at 28 Essex Street. Three people died and seventeen were injured.[2] The building was repaired but demolished in 1999 and replaced by Globe House, the building that is now the headquarters of British American Tobacco." --
Jayron3217:26, 11 February 2022 (UTC)reply
That's not the 1874 building, that's an earlier (unbuilt) design for the London School Board. As it says in the text of that image, that 1873 design was modified to include a central tower and two pavilions on either side, which was what was actually built, per the photograph I shared above. --
Jayron3218:23, 11 February 2022 (UTC)reply
And according to
This, the modern Arundel House dates from the "Late 19th Century". Which would fit in with what I noted above.
This also states the same thing. --
Jayron3218:35, 11 February 2022 (UTC)reply
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Quite so, and Rheims and Dunkirk and Flanders and Rome. I claim no privilege for myself that I would not allow a foreigner, if a Greek calls London "Londino" it's no skin off my nose.
DuncanHill (
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17:30, 11 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Looks like
John Bercow isn't going to get a peerage. Following the report of the enquiry into his behaviour he commented (like so many before him) "Calling it a kangaroo court would be unfair to kangaroos." He was the one who denied driving around with a "F**k Brexit" banner visible through the window of his car - turned out it was his wife's car.
2A00:23C3:FB80:7C00:C495:3CE7:3180:2449 (
talk)
13:44, 13 February 2022 (UTC)reply
Looking at a map, Temple station abuts the
Victoria Embankment Gardens, which had existed since when the School Board Building opened, and Temple Station predates both. If the statue and gardens are in the same place as in 1874 (and they might be, the Gardens look to be about the same size and shape on Google Street View as in some of the pictures and drawings of the London School Board Building), then today the site is occupied by The Globe House, a more modern building that is the home of
British American Tobacco. See picture to right. You can see
Here the red brick building immediately to its right is the same building, and still there today. --
Jayron3217:21, 11 February 2022 (UTC)reply
And checking the Wikipedia article
Temple Place confirms it. "Around the same time, Bodley and Garner's London School Board Building was erected in Temple Place. It was replaced by Electra House, the headquarters of Cable & Wireless, in 1929. It was damaged during the Second World War when on 24 July 1944 a V1 flying bomb hit the east of the building, demolishing part of it, blocking Milford Lane and trapping people in rubble at 28 Essex Street. Three people died and seventeen were injured.[2] The building was repaired but demolished in 1999 and replaced by Globe House, the building that is now the headquarters of British American Tobacco." --
Jayron3217:26, 11 February 2022 (UTC)reply
That's not the 1874 building, that's an earlier (unbuilt) design for the London School Board. As it says in the text of that image, that 1873 design was modified to include a central tower and two pavilions on either side, which was what was actually built, per the photograph I shared above. --
Jayron3218:23, 11 February 2022 (UTC)reply
And according to
This, the modern Arundel House dates from the "Late 19th Century". Which would fit in with what I noted above.
This also states the same thing. --
Jayron3218:35, 11 February 2022 (UTC)reply