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GUILDHOUSE, BELGRAVE ROADAt around 12.05 am on 17th April 1941 a parachute mine hit anddestroyed 75 Eccleston Square. The adjoining Guildhouse onBelgrave Road was severely damaged. The Guildhouse, built in1848 as the Eccleston Square Congregational Church and converted into an ecumenical centre in 1921, was being used as arefugee and homeless reception post.

Shrapnel from the mine's explosion also hit several buildings in thesurrounding area. One rescue team immediately responded andpolice requested a second team 20 minutes later. Several ambulances were sent out: two at 1am, one at 1.26am and a finalambulance arrived at 3.20am. People were reported trapped withinthe wreckage but the authorities were unsure of the number.

Belgrave Road, Eccleston Square and Warwick Way were closedto traffic at around 2am. Belgrave Road was piled with debris andwhat remained of the Guildhouse was deemed unstable.

Another light rescue party was requested at 2.59am to help withthe recovery process. The police found a body in the rubble.Recovery efforts were stalled when it began to rain heavily. A fur-ther message reported water pouring through the wreckage and requested ropes and lamps to assist with the recovery of survivorsand bodies.

Three more bodies were found during which rescue workers alsospotted people on the tower of the Guildhouse. They had beenalone in the ruined building for over 16 hours. They were taken tohospital.

Recovery efforts continued for several days. On 3rd May rescue

parties at the site left a fire burning. The building again burst intoflames. The police responded and a fire engine was sent andextinguished the fire. An ARP reports later confirmed a final totalof five people killed in the Guildhouse incident. The Guildhouse sitewas redeveloped in 1958. Today it houses government and charityoffices at 11 Belgrave Road.

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LONDON OPEN HOUSE WEEKEND - 20TH & 21 SEPTEMBERwas started in 1992 as a, not-for-profit organisation to promote public awareness and appreciation of the capital's building designand architecture. The intention was to open up London's splendidbuildings to the general public who don't otherwise have access. itwas seen as a way of helping the wider community to become moreknowledgeable, engage in dialogue and make informed judgementson architecture.

Argentine Ambassador's Residence49 Belgrave Square, SW1X 8QZKnown as the 'Independent North Mansion' and christened bySydney Herbert as 'Belgrave Villa' and then simply 'The Villa' by hissuccessor the 6th Duke of Richmond. Owned by Argentina since1936 and with sumptuous interiors still intact.Saturday/Sunday 12.00 pm-to-5.00 pm

Caledonian Club9 Halkin Street, SW1X 7DR.Built 1908 in Neoclassical style by Detmar Blow for Hugh Morrison(1868-1931), was the last mansion house of its kind to be built inLondon. The club, founded in 1891, moved to the premises in 1946.Sunday 10am-to-5.00 pm Hourly tours. Pre-book on 020 7333 8712.

Italian Cultural Institute39 Belgrave Square, SW1X 8NXGrade I listed stucco-fronted town house. Saturday 10.00 am-to-5.00 pm First come basis.Entry: reception area, conference room, library, reading room, mainreception rooms.

London Victoria Railway StationA fully guided tour on top of London Victoria Station's Grade II listedroof. Designed by engineer Sir John Fowler and renovated by MayGurney/WSP in 2011 as part of a £35 million upgrade.Saturday/Sunday 9.00 am-to-5.00 pm Pre-book ONLY on www.networkrail.co.uk/VicOpenHouse.

Methodist Central Hall WestminsterStorey's Gate, SW1H 9NH.A masterpiece of Edwardian neo-baroque architecture oppositeWestminster Abbey. Great Hall was the venue for the InauguralGeneral Assembly of the United Nations in 1946.Sunday 1:30 pm-to-5.00 pm Regular tours, First come basis

Romanian Cultural Institute1 Belgrave Square, SW1X 8PHSaturday 11.00 am-to-5.00 pm Sunday 11.00 am-to-5,00 pmEntry: ground and first floors and 'Auspicious Absents' exhibition.

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CHURCH HOUSE was originally founded in 1887 and built to commemorate theGolden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. In 1931 plans were prepared toerect a new Church House in its place that was more in keeping with the needs of the time. However, it was consideredthat it would not be appropriate to proceed due to the world recession and plans were put in abeyance until 1937.

The current building was designed by the renowned architect, SirHerbertBaker, andthe foundationstone waslaid by HerMajesty,Queen Maryon 26th June1937. It tookuntil 1940 tocomplete andwas officiallyopened byHis Majesty,King GeorgeVl, on 10thJune 1940.The buildingsuffered adirect hit inWWII but onlyminimal

damage was done. The building was refurbished for use by the twoHouses of Parliament for the remainder of the war. Many historicspeeches and events took place within the building, in particularthe announcement, by Churchill from the stage of the HoareMemorial Hall, of the sinking of the battleship Bismarck.

In 1945 the first meetings of the United Nations PreparatoryCommission and Security Council were held in the Hoare MemorialHall. The building gained Grade II listed status in 1988 with thepresent Conference Centre opening officially on 19th November1990. In 2006 the Conference Centre underwent a refurbishmentwith the reconfiguration of the large Assembly Hall to a more flexible event space seating up to 664 for a conference or 372 for aseated dinner.

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CHELSEA BRIDGESince 1771, Battersea and Chelsea had been linked by the modestwooden Battersea Bridge. Following the advent of the railways,Chelsea began to become congested, and in 1842 it was proposedto build a new bridge downstream of Battersea Bridge and thereplacement of Battersea Bridge with a more modern structure. An1846 Act of Parliament authorised the building of a new toll bridge1.6 km downstream of Battersea Bridge. The bridge was to be builtand operated by the government, and would be toll-free once thecosts of building it had been recouped.

Engineer Thomas Page presented several potential designs, and hissuspension bridge which was selected consisting of a wrought irondeck and four 30 m cast iron towers supporting chains, which in turnsupported the weight of the deck. The towers rested on a pair of timber and cast iron piers. The towers passed through the deck,meaning that between the towers the road was 2.1 m narrower thanon the rest of the bridge.

Victoria Bridge was 214 m long with a central span of 101 m, and theroadway was 9.8 m wide with a 2.29 m footpath on either side. It took7 years to build, at a cost of £90,000. The controversial tolls werecollected from octagonal stone tollhouses at each end of the bridge.

By the early 20th century, Chelsea Bridge was in poor condition. Itwas unable to carry the increasing volume of traffic. In 1926 it wasrecommended that Chelsea Bridge be rebuilt or replaced.In 1931 the London County Council proposed demolishing ChelseaBridge and replacing it with a 6-lane bridge. The LCC was unable to

raise the funds, however, the Ministry of Transport underwrote 60%of the costs of a cheaper four-lane bridge costing £365,000.

Two sets of towers, each about a quarter of the way from the river'sedge, hold up the bridge. The bridge has no anchoring abutments.In 1934 a temporary footbridge was moved into place alongsideChelsea Bridge, and demolition began. The new bridge, also calledChelsea Bridge, was designed by LCC architects G. Topham Forrestand E. P. Wheeler and built by Holloway Brothers (London). Muchwider than the older bridge at 20 m wide, it has a 12 m wide roadwayand two 3.7 m wide pavements cantilevered out from the sides of thebridge. Chelsea Bridge is a self-anchored suspension bridge.

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GRUMBLES RESTAURANT - 50TH ANNIVERSARYIn 1964, Jeremy Friend opened a restaurant on a shoestring inChurton Street, Pimlico, in an area which he called a “slum”. At arent of £12 a week, with tables and chairs knocked up by a pal,and walls lined with dark stained pine cladding, the bohemianbistro quickly attracted a following of the young and trendy, withcelebs such as Julie Christie, Christine Keeler, Michael Foot, TheBeatles and the then Lady Diana Spencer, enjoying a meal withwine for an average of under three pounds.

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and calves liver and bacon. Here it was in 1981, in a cozy wood-lined alcove in the basement, that three MPs, regulars ofGrumbles, decided to form the Social Democratic Party.

The current owner, the very affable Alex Turnbull, tells the story ofa visit by Clint Eastwood one balmy evening when the restaurantwas bursting at the seams and was asked to come back in 15 minutes. He returned to be told there still wasn't a table free towhich he spluttered "Don't you know who I am?" Quick as a flashthe waitress replied "Yes, Mr Eastwood, but if you like you can waitby the bar downstairs with Princess Margaret." He declined theinvitation, not knowing if the waitress was serious - which she was!

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THE ROMANIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE was set up in 2004 and opened in 2006 under the direction of Ms

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THE GROSVENOR HOTEL, VICTORIA in 1862 the hotel was thought to be the most luxurious hotel everbuilt in London. The lease of the land was bought by a wealthybuilding contractor, Sir John Kelk, whose firm had built VictoriaStation and its railway bridge. Sir Kelk awarded the design to archi-tect J T Knowles. A design plan for the hotel was exhibited at theRoyal Academy Summer Exhibition for 1860, and The Grosvenor

opened one year after the completion of Victoria Station.

The design of The Grosvenor was meant to embody the opulenceof railway travel, and match the glamour of the rails. ArchitectKnowles styled the exterior of the hotel after Parisian chateaus andpalaces, complete with carvings, busts and gilded decorations. Thedesign was so distinctive, grand and unusual it came to inspire a short-lived design movement called ‘the Grosvenor style.’

The interior of the hotel featured a grand panelled hallway, marblefloor, four poster beds and flocked wallpaper. The hotel boastedluxurious smoking lounges and even an elevator. The hotel provedpopular with the aristocracy and London’s elite, many swappingtheir gentlemen’s clubs for the hotel’s decadent smoking lounges.

And in 1928, adventurer and racehorse trainer, Beryl Markham(mistress to Henry, Duke of Gloucester and son of King George V)gave birth to a son in one of the luxurious suites. It’s believed thatshe was given £15,000 for her silence about the pregnancy & birth.

A lack of modernisation and a decline in 1st class rail travel led theGrosvenor to fall into decline over the years. The hotel has workedwith experts at English Heritage to restore and refurbish the hotelin keeping with its original style, whilst still incorporating some ofthe refurbishments carried out by the famous Sir Alfred Waterhousein the late 1890s.

During the renovations, the original gold leaf finish was re-instatedto the columns in the grand lobby. The original white marble on thehotel’s iconic pillars was uncovered. The hotel’s public spaceshave been transformed with a new gym, champagne bar andrestaurant, as well as nine new meeting rooms – all named afterfamous trains.

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VAUXHALL BRIDGEis a Grade II listed steel and granite deck arch bridge crossing theThames between Vauxhall and Pimlico. The original bridge wasitself built on the site of a former ferry, and the first iron bridge overthe Thames, was built by a private company and operated as a tollbridge before being taken into public ownership in 1879. The second bridge, which took 8 years to build, was the first in Londonto carry trams and one of the first two roads in London to have abus lane.

In 1806 a scheme was proposed by Ralph Dodd to build a newmajor road from Hyde Park Corner to Kennington and Greenwich.In 1809 a new bill incorporated the Vauxhall Bridge Company,allowing it to raise up to £300,000 by means of mortgages or thesale of shares, and to keep all profits from any tolls raised. Doddscheme for a bridge at Vauxhall of 13 arches was dismissed by theCompan. John Rennie design to build a stone bridge of sevenarches was approved. On 9 May 1811, Lord Dundas laid the foundation stone of the bridge on the northern bank.

The Vauxhall Bridge Company ran into financial difficulties and acheaper iron bridge of nine arch iron bridge designed by SamuelBentham. Concerns over the construction of the piers led to the

design being abandoned. James Walker was appointed to designand build a bridge of nine 24 m cast-iron arches with stone piers.

On 4th June 1816, the bridge opened, initially named RegentBridge after George, Prince Regent, but renamed Vauxhall Bridge.The bridge cost £175,000 with the costs of approach roads andcompensation payments, the total cost came to £297,000.

Tolls were a penny for pedestrians to 2s 6d for vehicles drawn bysix horses. Mail coaches, soldiers on duty were exempt. With therapid urban growth, Vauxhall Bridge very profitable. The annualincome rose from £4,977 to £62,392. In 1877 the Metropolis TollBridges Act made it toll free.

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EATON SQUARE CONCERTS AUTUMN 2014celebrates its sixteenth season. ‘Celebration’ is the theme runningthrough the autumn season. Anniversary concerts, award-winnersand exploration of cultural heritage are all elements that are featured. Thursday 9th October 2014, 7.30 pmOxford Camerata – 30th Birthday ConcertVON BINGEN: O vis aeternitatisSHEPPARD: Gloria from Missa Cantate16TH-CENTURY SPANISH VILLANCICO: Riu, riu, chiuSHEPPARD: Verbum caro

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BUXTON MEMORIAL FOUNTAINcelebrates the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834,in Victoria Tower Gardens, Millbank.

It was commissioned by Charles Buxton MP, and was dedicated tohis father Thomas Fowell Buxton along with William Wilberforce,Thomas Clarkson, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Henry Broughamand Stephen Lushington, all of whom were involved in the abolition. Itwas designed by Gothic architect Samuel Sanders Teulon in 1865coincidentally with the passing of the 13th Amendment to the UnitedStates Constitution, which effectively ended the western slave-trade.

It was originally constructed in Parliament Square, erected at a costof £1,200. As partof the postwarredesign of thesquare it wasremoved in 1949and not reinstatedin its present posi-tion in VictoriaTower Gardensuntil 1957. Therewere 8 decorativefigures of Britishrulers on it, but 4were stolen in 1960and 4 in 1971.They werereplaced by fibre-glass figures in1980. By 2005these were miss-ing, and the foun-tain was no longerworking. Betweenautumn 2006 and

February 2007 restoration works were carried out. The restored fountain was unveiled on 27th March 2007 as part of the commemo-ration of the 200th anniversary of the act to abolish the slave trade.A memorial plaque commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Anti-Slavery Society was added in 1989.

The base is octagonal, about 12 feet in diameter, having open archeson the 8 sides, supported on clustered shafts of polished Devonshiremarble around a large central shaft, with 4 massive granite basins.Surmounting the pinnacles at the angles of the octagon are 8 figuresof bronze, representing the different rulers of England; the Britonsrepresented by Caractacus, the Romans by Constantine, the Danesby Canute, the Saxons by Alfred, the Normans by William theConqueror, and so on, ending with Queen Victoria. The fountainbears an inscription to the effect that it is "intended as a memorial ofthose MP’s who advocated the abolition of the British slave-trade.


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MEMORIAL TO THE UNKNOWN WARRIOR AT VICTORIARAILWAY STATIONOn the 10th November 1920, the mail train arrived at VictoriaStation at platform 8 at 8.32 pm, but one of the carriages had itsroof painted white to mark it out as different from the others. Thiswas the carriage carrying the remains of the Unknown Warrior.

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ST. JAMES'S PARKhas two islands, West Island, and Duck Island, which is namedfor the lake's collection of waterfowl. This includes a residentcolony of pelicans, the first gift of the birds from a Russianambassador in 1664.

In 1532, Henry VIII purchased from Eton College an area ofmarshland, through which the Tyburn flowed. This land lay to theWest of York Place, recently acquired by Henry from CardinalWolsey; it was purchased in order to turn York Palace, renamed

Whitehall. James I's had the park be drained and landscaped,and exotic animals kept in the park, including camels, crocodiles,and an elephant, as well as exotic birds kept in aviaries.

Charles II redesigned the park to include a canal. The park wasnotorious at the time as a meeting place for impromptu acts oflechery. In the late 17th and early 18th centuries cows weregrazed on the park, and milk could be bought fresh at the"Lactarian". In the 18th century part of the canal was reclaimedfor Horse Guards Parade and the 1761 purchase of BuckinghamHouse (now Buckingham Palace).

George IV’s remodelling of the park was overseen architect andlandscaper John Nash, with the canal converted to a more naturally-shaped lake, and formal avenues rerouted to romanticwinding pathways. Buckingham House was expanded to createthe current palace, and Marble Arch was built at its entrance,whilst The Mall was turned into a grand processional route,opened to public traffic 60 years later in 1887, the Marble Arch is now located at Oxford Street and Park Lane in 1851 andreplaced with the Victoria Memorial between 1906 and 1924.

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