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History It is the grandest and most familiar survival of the architectural genre of banqueting house. Formerly part of the Palace of Whitehall, it was designed by Inigo Jones in 1619 and completed in 1622 with assistance from John Webb. In 1649 King Charles I of England was executed on a scaffold in front of the building. Inside the building there is a single two-story double-cube room which is decorated with paintings by Sir Peter Paul Rubens that were commissioned by Charles I in 1635 to fill the panelling of the ceiling. The Banqueting House introduced a refined Italianate Renaissance style that was unparalleled in Jacobean England, where Renaissance motives were still filtered through the engravings of Flemish Mannerist designers. The roof is all but flat and the roofline is a balustrade. On the street facade all the elements of two orders of engaged columns, Corinthian over Ionic, above a high rusticated basement, are locked together in a harmonious whole. The Banqueting House was planned as part of a grand new Palace of Whitehall, but the tensions that eventually led to the Civil War intervened. In 1685 the Banqueting House became the first building in England to use crown glass in its windows. Later, in the fire that destroyed the old Whitehall Palace the isolated position of the Banqueting Hall preserved it from the flames.

Used to have a fantastic art deco entrance hall which fortunately was saved when they changed (ruined) the interior in 1969 and was exhibited at the V&A museum in 2003 where I believe it is stored (not normally in public view). http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1157_art_deco/about/strand/strand_html.htm

They have tours around on the annual heritage London open day (think in September) - very interesting history about the docks and shipping as well as the customs part, though that's good too.

I use to go shopping here with my Grandparents when I was a kid from 1936 to 1951, they lived at 79 Pownall Road

it,s very nice and cheap hotel.all the staf is very friendly include maintenance ,chambermaid,housekepper.thank you for the service

But they've since changed their minds, now saying in the "GUIDE TO THE OLYMPIC, PARALYMPIC & LEGACY TRANSFORMATION PLANNING APPLICATIONS AND OLYMPIC VILLAGE (PART) AND LEGACY RESIDENTIAL PLANNING APPLICATION LOWER LEA VALLEY OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC MASTERPLAN & LOWER LEA VALLEY LEGACY MASTERPLAN FEBRUARY 2007": "Demolitions at Kings Yard will have a moderate adverse effect as will the loss of Bully Point Pond and some wasteland invertebrate habitats" No doubt the newts will be decanted.

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Good restaurant you can pop into on your peregrinations of St Katherine's Dock or the Thames Path.

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It's rather in the shadows on the Google image. Here is a photo of it: http://www.fotolog.com/timfrost/15356550

In which case you have got the wrong location . The smaller square -- bottom right of this -- is more accurate

C'mon you irons

The market scene of the film Notting Hill was shot here.

Had a great night at Temple Court November 24th 2006. It was a James Bond theme night and as you can imagine it was Pussy Galore. Thanks to Majick and Yvonne for taking me it was a real birthday treat. The hall is a massive 500ft long and was built in the 16th centuary, it took eleven years to complete this grand structure. Still waiting for Tim to upload the hundreds of pics he took on his £1000 lens. Come on Tim where the pics?

This station closed in December 2006 and may never re-open. The trackbed might be re-used if the Crossrail One scheme is ever built, with the likely eastern terminus being at Abbey Wood south of the River Thames. It might serve a steam heritage attraction in the meantime.

Thomas Allom was the Ladbroke family surveyor. So perhaps Allom's name lives on, here in this early 1950s, local authority block. If so, it's fitting that the Allom and Barlow blocks enclose a communal garden, just as Allom himself had pioneered some 200 years earlier.

n thats where I opened my eyes n saw this world 4 the first time!!!!!!!