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* Millbank Prison in London is demolished.
The area has a substantial residential population, a surprisingly large proportion of which is a traditional London working class community living in council and Peabody Trust estates at the back of Westminster Abbey and off Millbank.
The Tate Gallery was housed in the current building occupied by Tate Britain which is situated in Millbank, London.
The Tate Britain is located within the ward of Millbank, but is a short walk from Pimlico underground station and is regarded as a Pimlico landmark.
In the London Gazette Turpin was described as " Richard Turpin, a butcher by trade, is a tall fresh coloured man, very much marked with the small pox, about 26 years of age, about five feet nine inches high, lived some time ago in Whitechapel and did lately lodge somewhere about Millbank, Westminster, wears a blue grey coat and a natural wig ".
Millbank is an area of central London in the City of Westminster.
Millbank is located by the River Thames, east of Pimlico and south of Westminster.
The former Royal Army Medical College, situated at Millbank, is the site where the vaccine for typhoid was first developed, and in the late 19th century, was where the world ’ s first modern prison ( Millbank Prison ) was established.
Millbank Estate is a large but highly regarded Grade II listed red-brick housing estate that gives the area behind Tate Britain a distinct character.
Millbank Tower is a large, modernistic office complex between the River Thames, Millbank Estate and Tate Britain Gallery.
Millbank Millennium Pier is a modern River Thames pier structure.
Millbank Tower is a high skyscraper in the City of Westminster at Millbank, on the banks of the River Thames in London, in the United Kingdom.
The 2003 edition of the Pevsner architectural guide says that Millbank Tower is " one of the few London office towers to have won affection ", and contrasts it with the " boxy structure " of the Shell Tower at Waterloo.
On the west side, in Westminster, are Thames House ( the headquarters of MI5 ), behind which is Horseferry House ( the National Probation Service headquarters ), and Clelland House and Abell House ( the headquarters of HM Prison Service ), and the Millbank Tower and Tate Britain.
The current structure, a five-span steel arch, designed by engineer Sir George Humphreys and architects Sir Reginald Blomfield and G. Topham Forrest, was built by Dorman Long and opened on 19 July 1932 by King George V. It formerly carried four lanes of road traffic ( now reduced to three lanes, one of which is a buses-only lane flowing eastbound ) from a roundabout junction by the Lambeth Palace northwards to another roundabout, where the Millbank road meets Horseferry Road ( the road name gives a clue to a previous crossing: a ferry operated on the site for some years ).
The much smaller Albert Embankment is on the south side of the river, opposite the Millbank section of the Thames Embankment.
It now hangs in the Tate Britain gallery on Millbank and is one of the most visited paintings in Britain.
* Nobel House, the headquarters of ICI, on Millbank, Westminster, London, designed by Frank Baines, is completed.
* Millbank Tower in London is completed.

Millbank and with
In British politics, the term ' Millbank Machine ' or ' Millbank tendency ' ( a play on ' Militant tendency ') has been linked with the activities of spin doctors.
Image: Millbank Tower, Thames House, Parliament. JPG | Millbank Tower from Vauxhall, with Thames House and the Palace of Westminster visible in the background.
He had refused this knighthood more than once until-after he had spent £ 150, 000 to build the Millbank Gallery, endowed it with his personal collection, and presented it to the nation-he was told the Royal Family would be offended if he refused again.
Three – Bayswater, Maida Vale and Millbank, had been narrowly won by Labour, a further three, St. James's, Victoria and Cavendish had been narrowly lost by them, in West End ward an Independent had split the two seats with the Conservatives while in Hamilton Terrace the Conservatives were threatened by the SDP.
In 1965, he was employed with law offices of Millbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, New York.
A gritty series, Running Scared deals with a teenage girl, Paula ( Julia Millbank ), whose life is put at risk when she uncovers evidence that could put a local criminal gang leader ( played by Christopher Ellison ) behind bars.
Millbank Estate is now managed by a leading TMO ( tenant management organisation ) with residents securing Grade II listing and exemplaring keep for the 17 buildings and court yards, each named after one of Britain's best known painters.
A large circular bollard stands by the river with the inscription: " Near this site stood Millbank Prison which was opened in 1816 and closed in 1890.

Millbank and rest
A study from the late Victorian period showed that over 90 % of prostitutes in Millbank prison were the daughters of " unskilled and semiskilled workingmen "; over 50 % of these women had been servants, while the rest had worked in dead end jobs such as laundering, charing, and street selling.

Millbank and London
The company was independent from 1926 to 2008, headquartered for most of that time in Millbank, London, and was a constituent of the FT30 Index and FTSE 100 Index.
It established its head office at Millbank in London in 1928.
The original Tate art gallery was called the National Gallery of British Art, situated on Millbank, Pimlico, London at the site of the former Millbank Prison.
It was latterly the home of Sir Henry Tate, sugar refiner, benefactor of local libraries across south London, including Streatham Library, and founder of the Tate Gallery at Millbank.
The service has had a national headquarters at Thames House on Millbank in London since 1995, drawing together personnel from a number of locations into a single HQ facility.
Greenwood's 1827 map showing parts of Pimlico and Millbank, London | Millbank prior to development
The headquarters of the British chemicals giant ICI was originally located at Nobel House in Millbank before it relocated to Manchester Square, also situated in London.
The development of Westminster Millennium Pier was funded by the Millennium Commission as part of the Thames 2000 project, and it was one of five new piers opened in 2000 by the Commission on the Thames ( the others being Blackfriars Millennium Pier, London Eye Pier, Tower Millennium Pier and Millbank Millennium Pier ).
The first modern prison in London, Millbank, opened in 1816.
Grosvenor was born at Millbank House, Westminster, London, the eldest of the three sons of Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster and Lady Eleanor Egerton.
Buxton Memorial Fountain, celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, in Victoria Tower Gardens, Millbank, Westminster, London
* 1928 establishes its Head Office at Millbank in London

Millbank and south
Millbank shares the name of the main road ( A3212 ) along the north bank of the River Thames, extending northwards from Vauxhall Bridge to Abingdon Street, just south from Parliament Square.
Image: Millbank Tower Base-Millbank-Westminster-London-240404. jpg | Millbank Tower base, from the south.
Image: Millbank Tower-Millbank-Westminster-London-240404. jpg | Millbank Tower from the south, taken from Vauxhall bridge.

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