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St Helen's Place, Bishopsgate
St Helen's Bishopsgate is a large conservative evangelical Anglican church, in Lime Street ward, in the City of London, close to the Lloyd's building and the 'Gherkin'.St Helen's Bishopsgate dates from 1204, when it was part of a priory for Benedictine nuns. It is unusual in that it was designed around two parallel naves, which give it a wide interior.Inside are many fifteenth and seventeenth century funerary monuments, including that of Sir Andrew Judd (d.1558), Sir William Pickering (d.1574) and Sir John Crosby (d.1475). It was the parish church of William Shakespeare when he lived in the area in the 1590s. It is one of only a few City churches to survive both the Great Fire of London of 1666 and The Blitz during World War II.
In 1992 and 1993, St Helen's was badly damaged by two IRA bombs that were set off nearby. The roof of the church was lifted and one of the city's largest medieval stained glass windows was shattered. Now, it has been fully restored although many of the older monuments within the church were entirely destroyed. Architect Quinlan Terry, an enthusiast of Georgian architecture, designed the restoration of the building along Reformation lines. Due to parish consolidation over the years, the parish is now named "St Helen Bishopsgate with St Andrew Undershaft & St Ethelburga Bishopsgate & St Martin Outwich & St Mary Axe." The Merchant Taylors' Company are the patrons of the benefice. The church was designated a Grade I listed building on 04 January 1950.
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Stamford Street
Stamford Street is a street in Lambeth and Southwark, London England, just south of the River Thames. It runs between Waterloo Road to the west and Blackfriars Road to the east. At the western end, in the middle of a large roundabout, is the British Film Institute London IMAX Cinema. On the north side at this end is the Waterloo campus of King's College London, the Schiller International School, the English Language Institute and London City College. Halfway along to the south is the London Nautical School. Also close by to the north are the Royal National Theatre, the London Television Centre and the Oxo Tower.
King's College London has two buildings at the western end of Stamford Street, the Franklin-Wilkins Building (Cornwall House) to the north and the Stamford Street Apartments opposite to the south on its Waterloo Campus.
The headquarters of the supermarket chain J Sainsbury used to be located in Stamford Street.
The street forms part of the A3200, which continues at York Road to the west and Southwark Street to the east.
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The Law Society, Chancery Lane
The Law Society of England and Wales is the professional association that represents the solicitors' profession in England and Wales. It provides services and support to practising and training solicitors as well as serving as a sounding board for law reform. Members of the Society are often consulted when important issues are being debated in Parliament or by the executive. The society was formed in 1825.
The Hall of the Law Society is at 113 Chancery Lane, London but it also has offices in Redditch, Worcestershire, Leamington Spa and Brussels, Belgium (to deal with European Community law).
The current President of the Law Society is Robert Heslett. The Vice President is Linda Lee, and the Deputy Vice President, John Wotton.
Barristers in England and Wales have a similar professional body, the General Council of the Bar, commonly known as the Bar Council.
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The Maughan Library 01
The Maughan Library and Information Services Centre (more commonly known as The Maughan Library) is a 19th-century Gothic building located on Chancery Lane in the City of London. It was formerly home to the Public Record Office, the so-called "strong-box of the empire" and is now the main library of King's College London, forming part of its Strand Campus. Designed by Sir James Pennethorne and built between 1851 and 1858, it is a Grade II* listed building. Inside the Library is the octagonal Round Reading Room, inspired by the reading room of the British Museum, and the former Rolls Chapel (renamed the Weston Room following a donation from the Garfield Weston Foundation) with its stained glass windows, huge mosaic floor and three monuments, including an important Renaissance terracotta figure by Pietro Torrigiano of John Yonge, Master of the Rolls, who died in 1516. The library was named after Sir Deryck Maughan, himself a King's alumnus, who made a £4m donation towards the new College library.
It holds more than 750,000 items including books, journals, CDs, records, DVDs, theses and exam papers. These items cover four of the college's Schools of Study — Arts and Humanities, Law, Physical Sciences & Engineering and Social Science & Public Policy. This includes the collection of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and the post-1850 collection of London's theological Sion College. In addition to this, the library holds more than 150,000 78rpm records donated by the BBC in 2001 which span a wide range of genres. Further to this, in 2007 the library acquired the historical collections of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which includes Britain's 1812 declaration of war on the USA.
The building is also home to the Foyle Special Collections Library, "a collection of over 110,000 printed works as well as thousands of maps, slides, sound recordings and some manuscript material". Amongst this manuscript material is The Carnegie Collection of British Music, a collection of original, signed manuscripts, many of them by notable composers, whose publication was funded by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie via the Carnegie UK Trust.
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Union Bank Chambers, Carey Street
Union Bank Chambers, Carey Street. Along the street you can see where Chancery Lane crosses Carey Street and the Maughan Library, part of King's College London. The red-brick Victorian neo-Gothic building is the rear of The Royal Courts of Justice. This area is at the heart of the English legal profession. -
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Waterloo Station
Waterloo station, also known as London Waterloo, is a major central London railway terminus in London, England owned and operated by Network Rail. It is near the South Bank in the London Borough of Lambeth, and in Travelcard Zone 1. In the financial year from 2007/8 (during which Eurostar services stopped using it) the station handled some 100.307 million passengers. The number of people passing through the station is considerably greater, as this figure is based on ticket sales for London Waterloo alone and does not include usage data for the Underground and Waterloo East. The Waterloo complex ranks as one of the busiest passenger terminals in Europe, comparable to the Gare Saint-Lazare and second only to the Gare du Nord in Paris. It has more platforms and a greater floor area than any other railway station in the UK. (Clapham Junction, just under four miles down the line, has the highest number of trains.) It is the terminus of a network of railway lines in South West England and the suburbs of London. -
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London Canal Museum
London Canal Museum in the King's Cross area of London is a regional museum that displays information about the history of London's canals. The museum was opened in 1992. It is housed in a Victorian ice warehouse that was used by Carlo Gatti. The building was constructed around 1860 to house ice imported from Norway by ship and canal barge. There are two preserved ice wells under the building, one of which may be viewed from the public area of the museum. The museum is independent, self funded and a registered charity.It is run and managed almost completely by volunteers. It is often used as a venue for private functions out of opening hours and this provides income to support it.
The museum is situated in the King's Cross area of London, England on the Regent's Canal. Battlebridge Basin is accessible from the rear of the museum. The nearest bus stop is on Wharfdale Road, where routes 17, 91, and 259 northbound, and route 390 southbound, stop. It is a five-minute walk to King's Cross London Underground station.
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The Maughan Library 02
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Carey Street Phone Booths
The red telephone box, a public telephone kiosk designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, is a familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom, Malta, Bermuda and Gibraltar, and despite a reduction in their numbers in recent years, red boxes can still be seen in many places and current or ex-British Colonies around the world. The colour red was chosen to make them easy to spot.The first standard public telephone kiosk introduced by the United Kingdom Post Office was produced in concrete in 1920 and was designated K1 (Kiosk No.1). This design was not of the same family as the familiar red telephone boxes.Very few remarkable examples remain.One shining example is located in Trinity market in Kingston-upon-Hull where it is still in use today. The red telephone box was the result of a competition in 1924 to design a kiosk that would be acceptable to the London Metropolitan Boroughs which had hitherto resisted the Post Office's effort to erect K1 kiosks on their streets.
In 1935 the K6 (kiosk number six) was designed to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V. K6 was the first red telephone kiosk to be used extensively outside of London and many thousands were deployed in virtually every town and city, replacing most of the existing kiosks and establishing thousands of new sites. It has become a British icon, although it was not universally loved at the start. The red colour caused particular local difficulties and there were many requests for less visible colours. The red that is now much loved was then anything but, and the Post Office was forced into allowing a less strident grey with red glazing bars scheme for areas of natural and architectural beauty. Ironically, some of these areas that have preserved their telephone boxes have now painted them red.