17-448: LCH may refer to: Places [ edit ] County Hall, London , London, UK Lake Charles (Amtrak station) , Louisiana, United States; Amtrak station code LCH Lake Charles Regional Airport , Lake Charles, Louisiana (IATA airport code) Companies & organizations [ edit ] Lexington Catholic High School , Lexington, Kentucky, United States LCH (clearing house) ,
34-753: A Wife at her home at the corner of Buckingham Court, Spring Gardens, in 1718. The 19th-century architect Decimus Burton bought a plot at Spring Gardens, where he constructed Nos. 10, 12, and 14 Spring Gardens as both his townhouse and his own office. The headquarters of the Metropolitan Board of Works , which had moved from the London Guildhall , was based at Spring Gardens, as was the London County Council , until it moved to County Hall . This building has since been demolished. The area hosted an open-air market for milk,
51-575: A billboard for opposition slogans which could be seen from the Palace of Westminster. When the government of Margaret Thatcher abolished the GLC in 1986, County Hall lost its role as the seat of London's government. Talk soon became of what was to happen to the building, and there were plans to relocate the London School of Economics to the site which did not proceed. The building remained in use by
68-510: A bridge and a tunnel both from the SE County Hall building, and it had orange sunshades, designed to be lowered and raised together automatically when the sun shone, rather than by local control which would look less pleasing on the outside. The controls quickly malfunctioned, leaving the unwanted "random" effect while also causing excess heat and glare inside the building which the occupants could not control. Disliked by many Londoners, it
85-451: A decorative fountain in the time of Elizabeth I that was set in motion by passers-by treading on hidden machinery, knowingly or unknowingly. Mostly Victorian buildings have been built lining the street. The Whig playwright and poet Susanna Centlivre (c.1669 – 1723), who has been described as "the most successful female playwright of the eighteenth century", spent the end of her life here, and wrote her most famous work A Bold Stroke for
102-411: A financial infrastructure company Military & aviation [ edit ] HAL Light Combat Helicopter Balikpapan-class landing craft heavy , officially known as Landing Craft, Heavy or LCH KAI LCH , Light Civil Helicopter of Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) Science & technology [ edit ] Langerhans cell histiocytosis , a type of cancer Life-cycle hypothesis ,
119-525: A model of economic consumption Locally Compact Hausdorff space , a term used in mathematics HCL colour spaces , a category of colour space models also referred to as LCh LCHab , an LCh representation of the CIELAB colour space LCHuv , an LCh representation of the CIELUV colour space Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
136-686: A number of leisure attractions including a hub for Merlin Entertainments whose Sea Life London Aquarium , London Dungeon , Shrek's Adventure ! and The London Eye are all based in and around the building. Since October 2017, the old council chamber has also been the home to a site-specific production of Agatha Christie 's Witness for the Prosecution . There are two hotels located in County Hall: Spring Gardens Spring Gardens
153-497: Is a dead-end street at the south east extreme of St. James's , London , England, that crosses the east end of The Mall between Admiralty Arch and Trafalgar Square . Part of the old liberty of Westminster and the current City of Westminster , it abuts Whitehall , Horse Guards Parade , Green Park , and the Charing Cross /Strand/Trafalgar Square locality. It is named after the gardens that stood here. These featured
170-421: Is a Grade II* listed building . The building was commissioned to replace the mid 19th-century Spring Gardens headquarters inherited from the Metropolitan Board of Works . The site selected by civic leaders was previously occupied by four properties: Float Mead (occupied by Simmond's flour mills), Pedlar's Acre (occupied by wharves and houses), Bishop's Acre (occupied by Crosse & Blackwell 's factory) and
187-739: Is a building in the district of Lambeth , London that was the headquarters of London County Council (LCC) and later the Greater London Council (GLC). The building is on the South Bank of the River Thames , with Westminster Bridge being next to it, to the south. It faces west toward the City of Westminster and is close to the Palace of Westminster . The nearest London Underground stations are Waterloo and Westminster . It
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#1732772625394204-561: The Four Acres (occupied by workshops and stables). The main six storey building was designed by Ralph Knott . It is faced in Portland stone in an Edwardian Baroque style. The construction, which was undertaken by Holland, Hannen & Cubitts , started in 1911 and the building was opened by King George V in 1922. The North and South blocks, which were built by Higgs and Hill , were added between 1936 and 1939. The Island block
221-717: The Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) until its abolition in 1990 when the building was transferred to the London Residuary Body and eventually sold to Shirayama Shokusan, a Japanese investor. On 21 October 2005, the High Court of England and Wales upheld a bid by the owners of the building, Shirayama Shokusan, to have the Saatchi Gallery evicted on grounds of violating its contract, particularly using space outside of
238-531: The rented area for exhibits. The Island Block was demolished in 2006 to make way for a hotel, the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge . The building, also known as No 1 Westminster Bridge Road , had been disused since 1986 and had been described as an eyesore. A blue plaque commemorates the LCC, GLC and the Inner London Education Authority at County Hall. Today, County Hall is the site of
255-498: The title LCH . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LCH&oldid=1210992175 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages County Hall, London County Hall (sometimes called London County Hall )
272-543: Was nonetheless considered "distinguished" by its architect and some other experts, and noted as an early example of open-plan office interior, which should have been listed. For 64 years County Hall served as the headquarters of local government for London. During the 1980s the then powerful Labour -controlled GLC led by Ken Livingstone was locked in conflict with the Conservative national government of Margaret Thatcher . The façade of County Hall frequently served as
289-584: Was not completed until 1974. In 1945, the World Trade Union Conference took place at the hall. The Island Block was built on what was then a roundabout (now a peninsula) between County Hall, St Thomas' Hospital and Waterloo Station . It was notable to the passing public for three main reasons: it was of a completely different architectural character to any of the other nearby buildings, it had no entrances at ground level (though there were emergency exits), being accessible only by
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