Girdlers' Hall, Basinghall Avenue
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Girdlers' Hall, Basinghall Avenue
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 14 May 2011
Down a bit. It's the polite neo-Georgian brick building you want, not the blue City Tower taking up ninety per cent of the picture. Built 1960-61 to the designs of Waterhouse & Ripley. Pevsner comments that it "thumbs its nose at the surrounding and exactly contemporary curtain-walled blocks" (City Tower was begun in 1962). A plaque on the site records that the first hall was built "on this site in 1431, destroyed by the Great Fire in 1666 and again by enemy action in 1940". Girdlers used to make belts and girdles. Presumably 'Belters' was considered inappropriate.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.516962
Longitude
-0.090636