Andrew Whitehead

 

London Occasionals

28/01/2012

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We ate at Carluccio's in Covent Garden last weekend - the building on the left with the blue awnings - to celebrate my daughter's 16th birthday. The building beyond, the cream coloured HSBC branch (now without any bank tellers at all), was for many decades the headquarters of a national political party.

Anyone want to hazard a guess which once?
 


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robyn link
03/02/2012 3:18am

very informative thanks

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Ruth
03/02/2012 3:47pm

It was The Party of course, the CP.

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Andrew
11/02/2012 5:47pm

Yes, this is 16 King Street - bought by the CP in 1921, and its headquarters until the late 1970s. As I remember, the CP stayed in Covent Garden just a couple of years longer than the fruit and veg market.

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