1922 – Dickins & Jones, 224-244 Regent St., London
In 1790, Dickins and Smith opened a shop at 54, Oxford Street, at the sign of the Golden Lion.
In 1790, Dickins and Smith opened a shop at 54, Oxford Street, at the sign of the Golden Lion.
The Port of London Authority was established in the 1900s to oversee what were then the busiest and most important docks in the world.
The first Lloyd’s building (at 12 Leadenhall Street in the City of London) had been built on this site in 1928.
As part of the firm of Helmle & Corbett, Harvey Wiley Corbett had designed Bush Tower,
Britannic House designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which later became British Petroleum.
Grosvenor House was built in the 1920s and opened in 1929 on the site of Grosvenor House,
Charles Holden’s central London masterpiece is this building for the Underground Group from 1927-29. Holden adopted an unusual cruciform shape to make best use of the awkward site.
Imperial Chemical House was built between 1928 and 1931 by Sir Frank Baines in the neoclassical style of the inter-war years.
Headquarters building for English Electric Company, on the site of the grandiose Gaiety Theatre which closed just prior to the Second World War.
The London church and mission was first established in 1882, when the Finnish port chaplain who had been sent to Hull in 1880 was relocated south because of the level of work demanded in London.