Bentham House, WC1H

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Bentham House is sited on Endsleigh Gardens.


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BG   
Added: 20 Dec 2022 02:58 GMT   

Lancing Street, NW1
LANCING STREET

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P Cash   
Added: 19 Feb 2023 08:03 GMT   

Occupants of 19-29 Woburn Place
The Industrial Tribunals (later changed to Employment Tribunals) moved (from its former location on Ebury Bridge Road to 19-29 Woburn Place sometime in the late 1980s (I believe).

19-29 Woburn Place had nine floors in total (one in the basement and two in its mansard roof and most of the building was occupied by the Tribunals

The ’Head Office’ of the tribunals, occupied space on the 7th, 6th and 2nd floors, whilst one of the largest of the regional offices (London North but later called London Central) occupied space in the basement, ground and first floor.

The expansive ground floor entrance had white marble flooring and a security desk. Behind (on evey floor) lay a square (& uncluttered) lobby space, which was flanked on either side by lifts. On the rear side was an elegant staircase, with white marble steps, brass inlays and a shiny brass handrail which spiralled around an open well. Both staircase, stairwell and lifts ran the full height of the building. On all floors from 1st upwards, staff toilets were tucked on either side of the staircase (behind the lifts).

Basement Floor - Tribunal hearing rooms, dormant files store and secure basement space for Head Office. Public toilets.

Geound Floor - The ’post’ roon sat next to the entrance in the northern side, the rest of which was occupied by the private offices of the full time Tribunal judiciary. Thw largest office belonged to the Regional Chair and was situated on the far corner (overlooking Tavistock Square) The secretary to the Regional Chair occupied a small office next door.
The south side of this floor was occupied by the large open plan General Office for the administration, a staff kitchen & rest room and the private offices of the Regional Secretary (office manager) and their deputy.

First Dloor - Tribunal hearing rooms; separate public waiting rooms for Applicants & Respondents; two small rooms used by Counsel (on a ’whoever arrives first’ bases) and a small private rest room for use by tribunal lay members.

Second Floor - Tribunal Hearing Rooms; Tribunal Head Office - HR & Estate Depts & other tennants.

Third Floor - other tennants

Fourth Floor - other tennants

Fifth Floor - Other Tennants except for a large non-smoking room for staff, (which overlooked Tavistock Sqaure). It was seldom used, as a result of lacking any facities aside from a meagre collection of unwanted’ tatty seating. Next to it, (overlooking Tavistock Place) was a staff canteen.

Sixth Floor - Other tennants mostly except for a few offices on the northern side occupied by tribunal Head Office - IT Dept.

Seventh Floor - Other tenants in the northern side. The southern (front) side held the private offices of several senior managers (Secretariat, IT & Finance), private office of the Chief Accuntant; an office for two private secretaries and a stationary cupboard. On the rear side was a small kitchen; the private office of the Chief Executive and the private office of the President of the Tribunals for England & Wales. (From 1995 onwards, this became a conference room as the President was based elsewhere. The far end of this side contained an open plan office for Head Office staff - Secretariat, Finance & HR (staff training team) depts.

Eighth Floor - other tennants.


The Employment Tribunals (Regional & Head Offices) relocated to Vitory House, Kingsway in April 2005.






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Parkers Row, SE1
My great great grandmother, and her soon to be husband, lived in Parker’s Row before their marriage in St James in June 1839. Thier names were - Jane Elizabeth Turner and Charles Frederick Dean. She was a hat trimmer and he was a tailor.

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Lindsay Trott   
Added: 1 Jan 2025 17:55 GMT   

Lockside not on 1939 Register
I have the Denby family living in Lockside in 1938 but it does not appear on the 1939 Register.

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Janelle Robbins   
Added: 27 Dec 2024 18:47 GMT   

Harriet Robbins
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Dave Hinves   
Added: 27 Nov 2024 03:55 GMT   

he was a School Teacher
Henry sailed from Graves End 1849 on ’The Woodbridge’ arrived South Australia 1850. In 1858 he married Julia Ann Walsh at Burra, South Australia, they had 3 children, and 36 grand children. Died 24 June 1896 at Wilmington, South Australia. He is my 1st cousin 3x removed.

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Kevin Pont   
Added: 23 Nov 2024 17:03 GMT   

St Georges Square
This is rather lovely and well worth a visit!

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Simon Chapman   
Added: 22 Nov 2024 17:47 GMT   

Blossom Place
My Great Great Grandmother, Harriett Robbins lived in 2 Blossom Place in 1865 before marrying my Great Great Grandfather. They moved to 23 Spitall Square.

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Mark G   
Added: 26 Oct 2024 21:54 GMT   

Skidmore Street, E1
Skidmore Street was located where present day Ernest Street and Solebay Street now stand. They are both located above Shandy Street and Commodore Street.

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Alan Russell   
Added: 26 Oct 2024 14:36 GMT   

Cheshire Street, London E2 - 1969
Cheshire Street, London E2 - 1969

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Capper Street, WC1E Capper Street was named after the Capper farmer, tenant farmers on this land in the 17th and 18th centuries (Bloomsbury)
Cardington Street, NW1 Cardington Street is a rare London street in that it closed for good as late as 2017 (Euston)
Cartwright Gardens, WC1N Cartwright Gardens is a crescent-shaped park and street located in Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
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Chalton House, NW1 Chalton House is a block on Chalton Street (Somers Town)
Chalton Street, NW1 Chalton Street was formerly Charlton Street, and runs parallel to Ossulston Street (Somers Town)
Chenies Mews, WC1E Chenies Mews is a road in the WC1E postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Christopher Place, NW1 Christopher Place leads off Chalton Street (St Pancras)
Churchway, NW1 Churchway, as ’Church Way’, formed part of old pathway to St Pancras Old Church (Euston)
Clare Court, WC1H Clare Court is a block on Judd Street (Bloomsbury)
Clarendon Grove, NW1 Clarendon Grove ran south from Clarendon Square (Somers Town)
Cobourg Street, NW1 Cobourg Street is a street in Camden Town (Euston Square)
Colonnade, WC1N Colonnade is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
Compton Place, WC1H Compton Place is a road in the WC1H postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Coram Street, WC1N Coram Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
Darwin Walk, WC1E Darwin Walk is a road in the WC1E postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Doric Way, NW1 Doric Way is named for the doric Euston Arch, built in 1837 and demolished in 1961 (Somers Town)
Drayton House, WC1H Drayton House is sited on Gordon Street (Euston Square)
Drummond Crescent, NW1 Drummond Crescent named after Lady Caroline Drummond (Euston)
Drummond Street, NW1 Drummond Street is alternatively known as ’Banglatown’, (Euston Square)
Duke’s Road, WC1H This is a street in the WC1H postcode area (St Pancras)
Edith Neville Cottages, NW1 Edith Neville Cottages lies between Drummond Crescent and Doric Way (Euston)
Egmont House, WC1H Egmont House is a block on Tavistock Place (Bloomsbury)
Endsleigh Gardens, WC1H Endsleigh Gardens is one of the streets of London in the WC1H postal area (Bloomsbury)
Endsleigh Place, WC1H Endsleigh Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1H postal area (Bloomsbury)
Endsleigh Street, WC1H Endsleigh Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1H postal area (Bloomsbury)
Euston House, NW1 Euston House is a block on Eversholt Street (Euston)
Euston Road, NW1 Euston Road runs from Marylebone Road to King's Cross. The road is part of the London Inner Ring Road and forms part of the London congestion charge zone boundary (Euston Square)
Euston Square, NW1 This is a street in the NW1 postcode area (St Pancras)
Euston Street, NW1 Euston Street is a street in Camden Town (Euston Square)
Evergreen House, NW1 Evergreen House is a block on Euston Road (St Pancras)
Flaxman Terrace, WC1H Flaxman Terrace connects Burton Street with Cartwright Gardens (Bloomsbury)
Foundling Court, WC1N Foundling Court is sited on Marchmont Street (Bloomsbury)
Foundry Mews, NW1 Foundry Mews is a road in the NW1 postcode area (Euston Square)
George Mews, NW1 George Mews lies within the NW1 postcode (Euston)
Gideon Schreier House, WC1H Gideon Schreier House is a block on Endsleigh Street (Bloomsbury)
Gordon Square, WC1H The completion of Thomas Cubitt’s Gordon Square in 1860 marked the final development of Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Gordon Street, WC1H Gordon Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1H postal area (Bloomsbury)
Gower Court, WC1E Gower Court is a road in the WC1E postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Gower Place, WC1E Gower Place runs from Gordon Street to Gower Street (Bloomsbury)
Gower Street, WC1E Gower Street is named after Gertrude Leveson-Gower, the wife of John Russell, the 4th Duke of Bedford (Bloomsbury)
Grafton Place, NW1 Grafton Place originally formed part of the Duke of Grafton’s FitzRoy Estate (Euston)
Grafton Way, W1T Grafton Way is named for the second Duke of Grafton (Fitzrovia)
Grafton Way, WC1E Grafton Way was formerly Grafton Street (Bloomsbury)
Hamilton House, WC1H Residential block (Bloomsbury)
Hampstead Road, NW1 Hampstead Road connects the Euston Road with Camden (Euston)
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Jenner House, WC1N Residential block (Bloomsbury)
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Medway Court, WC1H Medway Court can be found on Leigh Street (Bloomsbury)
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Quantum House, NW1 Quantum House is a block on Euston Street (Euston Square)
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Russell Square House, WC1B Residential block (Russell Square)
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Sandwich House, WC1H Sandwich House is a block on Sandwich Street (Bloomsbury)
Sandwich Street, WC1H Sandwich Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1H postal area (Bloomsbury)
Seymour House, NW1 Residential block (Euston)
Sinclair House, WC1H Residential block (Bloomsbury)
South Cloisters, WC1H South Cloisters is a road in the WC1H postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Speedy Place, WC1H Speedy Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1H postal area (Bloomsbury)
St Richard’s House, NW1 St Richard’s House is a block on Eversholt Street (Somers Town)
St. Georges Road, WC1H A street within the WC1H postcode (Bloomsbury)
Starcross Street, NW1 Starcross Street is a street in Camden Town (Euston)
Stephenson House, NW1 Stephenson House is a block on Hampstead Road (Euston)
Stephenson Way, NW1 Stephenson Way is a street in Camden Town (Euston Square)
Tailor House, WC1N Tailor House is a block on Colonnade (Bloomsbury)
Tavistock House North, WC1H Tavistock House North is one of the streets of London in the WC1H postal area (Bloomsbury)
Tavistock House South, WC1H Tavistock House South is one of the streets of London in the WC1H postal area (Bloomsbury)
Tavistock House, WC1H Residential block (Bloomsbury)
Tavistock Place, WC1H Tavistock Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1H postal area (Bloomsbury)
Tavistock Square, WC1H Tavistock Square was built by property developer James Burton and the master builder Thomas Cubitt for Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (Bloomsbury)
Taviton Street, WC1H Taviton Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1H postal area (Bloomsbury)
Thanet House, WC1H Thanet House is a block on Thanet Street (Bloomsbury)
Thanet Street, WC1H Thanet Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1H postal area (Bloomsbury)
The Cruciform Building, WC1E The Cruciform Building is a block on Gower Street (Bloomsbury)
The Wellcome Building, NW1 The Wellcome Building is a block on Euston Road (Bloomsbury)
Tiger House, WC1H Tiger House is a block on Burton Street (Bloomsbury)
Tolmers Square, NW1 Tolmers Square roughly covers the site of a reservoir of the New River Company (Euston Square)
Tonbridge Street, WC1H Tonbridge Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1H postal area (Bloomsbury)
University Street, WC1E University Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area (Bloomsbury)
Upper Woburn Place, WC1H Woburn Abbey was the duke of Bedford’s primary estate - they were the most significant property owners in the vicinity (Bloomsbury)
Wakefield Mews, WC1H Wakefield Mews derives ultimately from a former local pub: ’The Pindar of Wakefield’. (Bloomsbury)
Warren Court, NW1 Warren Court is a street in Camden Town (Tottenham Court Road)
Warren Court, W1T Warren Court is a block on Warren Street (Tottenham Court Road)
Wellesley House, NW1 Wellesley House can be found on Wellesley Place (Euston)
Whidborne Street, WC1H Whidborne Street was developed as Brighton Street early in the 19th century (Bloomsbury)
Whitfield Place, W1T Whitfield Place is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Whitfield Street, W1T Whitfield Street runs from Warren Street in the north to Windmill Street in the south. (Fitzrovia)
Whittlebury Street, NW1 Whittlebury Street once laid to the west of Euston station (Euston)
Wilsted Street, NW1 Wilsted Street was the original name for the lower end of Ossulston Street (St Pancras)
Witley Court, WC1H Witley Court is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
Woburn House, WC1H Woburn House is a block on Tavistock Square (Bloomsbury)
Woburn Mews, WC1H Woburn Mews ran parallel between Woburn Place and Upper Bedford Place to the west of Woburn Place (Bloomsbury)
Woburn Place, WC1H Woburn Place is situated on the Bedford estate, running north from the east of Russell Square to the east of Tavistock Square (Bloomsbury)
Woburn Square, WC1H Woburn Square is just north of the centre of Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Woburn Walk, WC1H Woburn Walk was also known as Woburn Buildings (Bloomsbury)
Woolf Mews, WC1H Woolf Mews is a road in the WC1H postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Yeomanry House, WC1N Yeomanry House is a building on Handel Street (Bloomsbury)


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The Carreras Cigarette factory, Mornington Crescent area This started life at the Acadia Works on City Road in the 19th century. It was a small business owned by Don Jose Carreras Ferrer who sold cigarettes, cigars and snuff out of small shops. A black cat began to curl up and sleep in the window of the shop near Leicester Square in Prince’s Street and the shop became known locally as "The Black Cat Shop". After the cigarette making machine was invented, the business required a large factory and moved to Hampstead Road between 1926 and 1928. It was designed by architect brothers, Marcus and Owen Collins with George Porri as their consultant. The black cat became the company’s logo. In 1959 the company merged with Rothmans and moved to Basildon, Essex. In the early 1960s the building became offices. The Egyptian décor was stripped away and the two cat statues removed. When the building got new owners in 1996, its former grandeur was restored. The building was later called “Greater London House” having become an office building.
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The Prince of Wales Theatre in 1903 shortly before its demolition for the building of the Scala Theatre in 1904.
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Fairyland, 92 Tottenham Court Road (1905) Fairyland was an amusement arcade with a shooting range, owned and run by Henry Stanton Morley (1875-1916) during the period leading up to and during the First World War. It was closed after (unintentionally according to its owners), it was used to practice political assassinations. Notably, attempts on the life of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith (planned but not carried out) and Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie (carried out).
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St. James Gardens
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Taste of India restaurant, Drummond Street, NW1 (2022)
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Cobden Statue, corner of Eversholt Street and Camden High Street (1905) Richard Cobden (1804 - 1865) was a Radical and Liberal politician, manufacturer, and a campaigner for free trade and peace. He was associated with the Anti-Corn Law League and the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty. In 1866, the Cobden Club was founded to promote "Peace, Free Trade and Goodwill Among Nations".
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View of the centre of Gordon Square (2008) The square was developed by master builder Thomas Cubitt in the 1820s, as one of a pair with Tavistock Square, which is a block away and has the same dimensions.
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10 Gower Street, Bloomsbury What’s in a name? Well, this area abounds in streets named after landowners. Gower Street is named after Gertrude Leveson-Gower, the wife of John Russell, the 4th Duke of Bedford. Leveson-Gower was noted as a formidable adviser to her husband who held various political roles during the reigns of George II and George III, including Lord Privy Seal and Ambassador to France at the end of the Seven Years’ War. The Gower baronetcy was a subsidiary title of the Duke of Sutherland, held in the Leveson-Gower family until 1963. The area now known as Bloomsbury had come into the possession of the Russell family in 1669. That year the 5th Earl of Bedford’s son married Lady Rachel Vaughan, daughter of the 4th Earl of Southampton. Southampton had started developing the area in the 1660s. John Russell died in 1771 and Gower Street was laid out from the 1780s onwards under Lady Gertrude’s supervision.
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Amy Street Art Trail - Lidlington Place, NW1
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Cab shelter, Russell Square
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