Victoria is an informal area of inner city London, lying wholly within the City of Westminster, and named for Victoria of the United Kingdom. Patrick Heron ( 30 January[[ 920]] &ndash 20 March[[ 999]] was an English painter, Writer and Designer, based in St The Victoria Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in Victoria Street, in the City of Westminster, opposite Victoria Station. Articulated buses (either motorbuses or Trolleybuses) also known as tandem buses, bendy buses, banana buses, slinky buses or London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The City of Westminster ( is a borough of London with city status. Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901 was from 20 June 1837 the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The area is vaguely defined as the streets around, and named after Victoria Station, including Victoria Street (see below), the northern section of Buckingham Palace Road, Wilton Road, Grosvenor Gardens, Bressenden Place and Eccleston Street. London Victoria is a major London Underground, National Rail and Coach station in the City of Westminster. The district consists predominantly of commercial property and social housing, with offices and shops lining most of the thoroughfares.
Victoria Street runs on an east-west axis from the station to Broad Sanctuary at Westminster Abbey. The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, which is almost always referred to by its original name of Westminster Abbey, is a large mainly Gothic church There is a new development, called Cardinal Walk (perhaps aptly located across the street from Westminster Cathedral), which contains a selection of restaurants, banks and shops, including a Marks and Spencer store. Westminster Cathedral in London, England, is the Mother church of the Roman Catholic community in England and Wales and the Metropolitan Marks & Spencer Group plc (also M&S, Marks and Sparks, and Marks) is a British Retailer with 843 stores in more than 30 Further along the street, there is a large House of Fraser department store, which was formerly the Army & Navy store, opposite Westminster City Hall. House of Fraser is a British Department store group with 63 stores (April 2008 across the United Kingdom and Ireland. Army & Navy Stores was the name of a Department store group in the United Kingdom, the flagship of which was located on Victoria Street in London The City of Westminster ( is a borough of London with city status. At the Broad Sanctuary end is the Department of Trade and Industry building, the headquarters of Transport for London at Windsor House and (New) Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service. The Department of Trade and Industry was a United Kingdom government department which was disbanded with the announcement of the creation of the Department for Business Transport for London ( TfL) is the local government body responsible for most aspects of the Transport system in Greater London in England. New Scotland Yard or Scotland Yard, informally known as The Yard and NSY, is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible "Metropolitan Police" redirects here See also Metropolitan police.
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Long before Cardinal Place opposite the Cathedral came into being there was a huge brewery (Stag Brewery) based at the southern end of Victoria Street. Pimlico is a small area of central London in the City of Westminster that is primarily residential and well known for its collection of small hotels and impressive From the early 17th century it started off as a small brewhouse with properties that once were part of St James' Palace. This then substantially grew and then was bought and owned by Watney & Co. James Watney ( 18 December 1800 &ndash1884 was a brewer and landowner who resided at Haling Park, Croydon, and Beddington They built lodgings around the brewery as well as amenities for their staff to use. By the end of the 19th century they were employing a sizable amount of staff. It closed down in 1959 and demolished. All that now remains of it is a street name Stag Place and a pub called the Stag.
Victoria Street originated in the 1850s - and its main thoroughfare lead to demolishing of slums. The station was built in 1861.
Archibald Leitch who was renowned for his work designing football stadiums including Anfield, Stamford Bridge, Old Trafford, Ibrox and White Hart Lane amongst many others. Anfield is an all-seater Association football Stadium in the district of Anfield, in Liverpool, England Stamford Bridge is a football Stadium on the border of Fulham and Chelsea, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham that Ibrox Stadium, originally Ibrox Park, is the Stadium of Rangers F For the railway station of the same name see White Hart Lane railway station. His offices were based at 53 Victoria Street (they too are long gone).
According to his biography Norman Wisdom slept near the staue of Marshal Foch by the bus station at the westerly end of the street when his parents split up at the age of 9. Sir Norman Wisdom, OBE (born 4 February 1915) is an English Comedian, Singer and Actor. Ferdinand Foch OM GCB (2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929 was a French soldier military theorist and writer credited with possessing "the most original [1] Before going into comedy he worked as an errand boy in the then grand Artillery Mansions on Victoria Street which was then a grand hotel. In the 1980s it went into decay and became a squat - and in the 1990s was gutted, refurbished and now it an elegant apartment block.
Victoria Palace has been in its present site since 1832. It was originally known as Moys music Hall but after Victoria station was built and the station it got demolished. It later got demolished again in 1911 due to a modernising drive. It was most famous for a gold statue of Anna Pavlova which was above it. In 1939 it was removed and lost. A replica has recently been added. Infamously known as the home of the Crazy Gang and the Black and White Minstrels. It has hosted countless famous in the yearly Royal Variety Show. Most of the year it hosts musicals (its longest showing was Barnum) its latest being Billy Elliott.
Little Ben - a small 20ft version of Big Ben stands in a traffic island outside the Victoria Palace. was first erected in 1891 removed in 1963 and put back in 1981. It was given by the French company as a gift of anglo-french friendship. Its clock is always 1 hour ahead of GMT The Apollo Victoria on Wilton Road was designed as a super Cinema in the art deco style in the 1930 and opened as the "New Victoria". It actually demolished an older Cinema at that site which was there from 1911 called the "Victoria Picture Palace". The Cinema closed in 1975 and went through a number of incarnations (at one point it was called the Venue). In 1981 it opened with a concert by Shirley Bassey. After that it hosted a few musicals until 1984 when the roller musical Starlight Express which was the main event for 16 years. They then continued with a few musicals - Bombay Dreams, Saturday Night Fever - and its latest attraction is the musical Wicked.
The House of Fraser store in the middle of Victoria has been for most of its life known as the Army & Navy store. House of Fraser is a British Department store group with 63 stores (April 2008 across the United Kingdom and Ireland. It opened in 1872 and sold groceries, clothes, various apparel and originally guns. It used to be open only to the most highest ranking elements of the armed forces and widows. This changed after 1922 when it was open to all. It has gradually shrunk in size. Its warehousing and depot area was sold to the Post Office, its staff car parking on Artillery Row was sold in the 1980s to make offices and its old food hall closed and is now a mini shopping concession mall. A post office is a facility authorized by a Postal system for the posting receipt sorting handling transmission or delivery of Mail. In 2005 it changed its name to House of Fraser.
Westminster Cathedral was built in 1903 filling a site previously occupied by the Tothill Fields Prison. Westminster Cathedral in London, England, is the Mother church of the Roman Catholic community in England and Wales and the Metropolitan
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