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Designed by famous Italian sculptor and architect Lorenzo Bernini in 17th century this staircase is at the residential apartment attached to the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. The “hidden” staircase can only be viewed through a guided tour conducted by the Basilica’s personnel.
(Update: After contacted the Flickr Help Team and troubleshooted in both sides, my upload from PC works again. I had to change to CloudFlare DNS)
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Almar Latour, Chief Executive Officer, Publisher, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, USA, Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA, Sir Martin Sorrell, Executive Chairman, S4Capital, United Kingdom, speaking in the Trustworthiness in the Digital Ecosystem session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 25 May. Congress Centre - Exchange. Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Valeriano di Domenico
Today is Flickr's 21st birthday! Today's theme is *BOLD*
Here is my lava lamp - which is used to bring me a moment of joy, and provide a bit of lighting when I eat dinner.
Did you know that lava lamps are used to generate random numbers? Cloudflare has a whole wall full of them, and cameras are used to get all sorts of measurements which are then used to create the random numbers that keep us all safe online.
The whole process is called 'Lavarand' and you can read about it, here:
Almar Latour, Chief Executive Officer, Publisher, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, USA, Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA, Sir Martin Sorrell, Executive Chairman, S4Capital, United Kingdom, speaking in the Trustworthiness in the Digital Ecosystem session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 25 May. Congress Centre - Exchange. Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Valeriano di Domenico
In Lisbon’s Alcântara district, this sleek, contemporary office complex houses major global firms including Cloudflare and Ernst & Young (EY). Its striking curved façades of glass and white cladding reflect the bright Portuguese sunlight, creating a streamlined, futuristic presence against the deep blue sky. The layered horizontal bands emphasize its modernist aesthetic, while extensive glazing offers panoramic views toward the nearby Tagus River and 25 de Abril Bridge. Situated near LX Factory, this location embodies Lisbon’s transformation into a hub for tech innovation, business, and design. The building’s architectural precision and urban integration make it a standout in the city’s evolving skyline.
It is not just Kiwinic.com that is copying Ruth's and my photographs of our Shandals® and shoes.
No, this abuse is perpetrated by over 100 Chinese web sites and marketed all over the world on Facebook and all the social media and in many countries, in 108 languages for well over a year!!!
It is obvious they are spending many hundreds of thousands of pounds advertising our Shandals and using our photographs
Two of these - Newchic.com and Roselinlin.com are advertising my Shandals on the front page of my AOL email account
They use our copyrighted photographs of our Shandals and shoes made with integrity, love and honour to sell really bad, cheap counterfeit copies of our work.
These Chinese companies have declared war on two bespoke shoemakers living and working in West Wales.
They are stealing our business, undercutting us and I think it should be stopped.
Dead.
According to whoishosting many of these Chinese web sites are hosted by Cloudflare.com, but it is a cover security web site. After complaining to abuse.cloudflare.com they forward the name of the actual hosting web site. Then one has to fill in another form. They may then take the photographs down, but refuse to give the name, contact details of the Chinese Manufacturer without a valid court order or subpoena.
Some of these fraudulent Chinese web sites are with Amazon. I have reported this abuse to abuse@amazonaws This is their response to my email abuse reporter,
Thank you for following up. Please accept our deepest apology for inconvenience this has caused you.
We understand that you want the contact details of our customer however due to strict customer confidentiality policies we cannot divulge any customer information.
Please be reassured that we are engaging with the customer responsible to mediate this towards a resolution.
We appreciate your patience and will notify you once this case has been marked resolved. Thank you for alerting us to this issue.
Regards
AWS Trust & Safety
Case number: 57648680785
This response, in my opinion, makes Amazon an accessory to crimes
What with Corvid 19 devastating the worlds economies the Chinese have a head start and they will buy all the bankrupt companies in the West and Amazon and Cloudflare are helping them do it.
I think that these Chinese companies are not just stealing my photographs and designs, but thousands of others.
How can a consumer trust a web site that copies another's photographs and make cheap copies of them.
And it is not just our Shandals and shoes they are copying because they are selling many, many products - women's clothes, handbags, accessories - you name it.
Having done much research into these fraudulent Chinese web sites, I can spot one immediately. They give a heavy discount, up to 50% and there is no return address, but just an email contact.
Consumers beware!!!
Read Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America
www.amazon.co.uk/Unrestricted-Warfare-Chinas-Destroy-Amer...
It is time Amazon, facebook and other web site hosts made an example of these Chinese web sites and took their whole web site/s down, in my opinion.
The Lace-up Shandals were made for a client with odd size feet. The left Shandal is a size 8 and medium width, the right a size 9 and the original slimmer Shandals. They are made from Caribou brown Italian leather and fully lined in Cream Connolly leather, once used to cover Rolls Royce car seats.
CloudFlare called not picky consumer, even suspected of harboring a lot of websites related to ISIS.
Action hacking by the hacker group Anonymous again occur. This time, the group is eyeing sites Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe.
Through booms on Twitter, the hacker group revealed that they...
milutenali.com/2015/12/14/protest-whale-hunting-anonymous...
Isn't this the cutest littlest network-wide ad-blocker you've ever seen? It uses DNS over HTTP and CloudFlare's 1.1.1.1 DNS proxy.
....and marketed them in 108 languages on over 100 web sites for well over a year. I try and take the web sites down and do, but they are like a Hydra, as soon as you take one down two pop up.
It is not just Mostata.com and lately Kiwinic.com on UK Facebook that is copying Ruth's and my photographs of our Shandals® and shoes.
No, this abuse is perpetrated by over 100 Chinese web sites and marketed all over the world on Facebook and all the social media and in many countries, in 108 languages for well over a year!!!
It is obvious they are spending many hundreds of thousands of pounds advertising our Shandals and using our photographs
Two of these - Newchic.com and Roselinlin.com are advertising my Shandals on the front page of my AOL email account
They use our copyrighted photographs of our Shandals and shoes made with integrity, love and honour to sell really bad, cheap counterfeit copies of our work.
These Chinese companies have declared war on two bespoke shoemakers living and working in West Wales.
They are stealing our business, undercutting us and I think it should be stopped.
Dead.
According to whoishosting many of these Chinese web sites are hosted by Cloudflare.com, but it is a cover security web site. After complaining to abuse.cloudflare.com they forward the name of the actual hosting web site. Then one has to fill in another form. They may then take the photographs down, but refuse to give the name, contact details of the Chinese Manufacturer without a valid court order or subpoena.
Some of these fraudulent Chinese web sites are with Amazon. I have reported this abuse to abuse@amazonaws This is their response to my email abuse reporter,
Thank you for following up. Please accept our deepest apology for inconvenience this has caused you.
We understand that you want the contact details of our customer however due to strict customer confidentiality policies we cannot divulge any customer information.
Please be reassured that we are engaging with the customer responsible to mediate this towards a resolution.
We appreciate your patience and will notify you once this case has been marked resolved. Thank you for alerting us to this issue.
Regards
AWS Trust & Safety
Case number: 57648680785
This response, in my opinion, makes Amazon an accessory to crimes
What with Corvid 19 devastating the worlds economies the Chinese have a head start and they will buy all the bankrupt companies in the West and Amazon and Cloudflare are helping them do it.
I think that these Chinese companies are not just stealing my photographs and designs, but thousands of others.
How can a consumer trust a web site that copies another's photographs and make cheap copies of them.
And it is not just our Shandals and shoes they are copying because they are selling many, many products - women's clothes, handbags, accessories - you name it.
Having done much research into these fraudulent Chinese web sites, I can spot one immediately. They give a heavy discount, up to 50% and there is no return address, but just an email contact.
Consumers beware!!!
Read Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America
www.amazon.co.uk/Unrestricted-Warfare-Chinas-Destroy-Amer...
It is time Amazon, facebook and other web site hosts made an example of these Chinese web sites and took their whole web site/s down, in my opinion.
Matthew Prince, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, CloudFlare, USA speaking in the In the Name of National Security session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 17 January. Sanada. Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Greg Beadle
The Postcard
A Colourmaster International Series postcard published by Photo Precision Ltd. of St. Ives, Huntingdon. On the back of the card they state:
'This fine aerial photograph features
Westminster Abbey, the Houses of
Parliament, Westminster Bridge,
Hungerford Bridge and, on the south
side of the River Thames, London
County Hall and part of the Royal
Festival Hall.
Photo by Aerofilms Ltd.'
The card was posted in Acton on Monday the 12th. July 1976 to:
Miss A. F. Wilson,
Staff,
Jubilee Hospital,
Woodford Green,
Woodford,
Essex.
The message on the back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Sally,
Thank you for your holiday
card - it was nice to have
the latest news from Steyning.
We have had very little rain
in the last 6 weeks - it seems
to be the same story everywhere.
We enjoyed our caravan holiday
with Phil & Betty.
Since then we have seen Lilly's
sister Caroline from the States.
We are now taking care of Tim's
cat for 3 weeks whilst he is in
Italy.
Hope you are well.
Love from Liz & Jim".
The Woodford Jubilee Hospital
The Woodford Jubilee Hospital, which was financed by Sir John Roberts, was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. It opened in 1899 with 12 beds. The patients were looked after by their GP's.
In 1911 it was extended to 54 beds, the money being raised by public subscription.
In 1937 a new X-ray room and apparatus was installed. The women's ward was extended, with an additional 6 beds. The work cost £3,877.
In 1948 the Hospital joined the National Health Service.
The Hospital closed in 1986 under the orders of the then Health Minister, Kenneth Clarke, because it was considered to be too small, with only 47 beds.
The Hospital building was demolished and the site redeveloped in 1988 for retirement homes.
Features which were originally part of the Hospital have been incorporated into the new buildings - a cameo plaque of Queen Victoria, a commemorative plaque, a sundial and a weather vane.
Aerofilms Ltd.
Aerofilms Ltd. was the UK's first commercial aerial photography company, founded in 1919 by Francis Wills and Claude Graham-White.
Wills had served as an Observer with the Royal Naval Air Service during World War I. He was the driving force behind the expansion of the company from an office and a bathroom (for developing films) in Hendon to a business with major contracts in Africa and Asia as well as in the UK.
Co-founder Graham-White was a pioneer aviator who had achieved fame by making the first night flight in 1910.
County Hall
County Hall is a building in 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. 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.
Today, County Hall is the site of businesses and attractions, including the London Sea Life Aquarium, London Dungeon and a Namco Station amusement arcade. The London Eye is next to County Hall, and its visitor centre is inside the building.
There is also a suite of exhibition rooms which was home to the Saatchi Gallery from 2003 to 2006. Other parts of the building house two hotels (a budget Premier Inn & a 5 star Marriott Hotel), several restaurants, the UK headquarters of the company Cloudflare, and some flats.
Various spaces are available for hire for functions, including the council chamber at the heart of the building. Until January 2010 the Dali Universe was also in the building but this has now closed.
The main six storey building was designed by the 29-year-old architect Ralph Knott. His design bested 50 other entries in a ‘Design County Hall’ contest. It is faced in Portland stone from the Isle of Wight in an Edwardian Baroque style, and the foundations are composed of Cornish granite.
County Hall has seven miles of corridors. The total cost of construction was nearly £4 million.
Before its completion in 1922, the building was damaged by six bombs during the First World War.
Ralph Knott died in 1929; four years before the entire complex of seven buildings was completed.
The construction, which was undertaken by Holland, Hannen & Cubitts, started in 1911, and the building was opened in 1922 by King George V. The North and South blocks, which were built by Higgs and Hill, were added between 1936 and 1939. The Island block was not completed until 1974.
For 64 years County Hall served as the headquarters of local government for London. During the 1980's the then powerful Labour-controlled GLC led by Ken Livingstone was locked in conflict with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher. Since the Parliament buildings were just across the river from County Hall, the façade of County Hall frequently during her tenure served as a billboard for opposition slogans.
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 plans to relocate the London School of Economics to the site from its Westminster campus were overruled by Mrs Thatcher, seemingly disapproving of further slogans from students.
The building remained in use by 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 private investors.
On the 21st. 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 the rented area for exhibits.
Today (2019), a large proportion of the building, including the entire fifth floor, remains empty since the dissolution of the GLC.
The County Hall Island Block, an annex of the main building, 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 become a derelict eyesore.
The Fullerton Massacre
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 12th. July 1976 was the date of the Fullerton Massacre - a mass murder committed by a library custodian at California State University at Fullerton.
The custodian was Edward Charles Alloway aged 37. Armed with a semi-automatic rifle he purchased at Kmart, he killed 7 people and injured 2 others in the library's first floor lobby.
He fled the campus and went to a hotel in Anaheim where his former wife worked. From there he phoned the police and told them:
"I went berserk at Cal State
Fullerton, and I committed a
terrible act.
I'd appreciate it if you would
come down and pick me up.
I'm unarmed".
Alloway had a history of violence and mental illness. He was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and judged to be insane after being convicted by a jury.
Alloway is imprisoned at Patton State Hospital under medical treatment.
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The panel Enass Abo-Hamed, Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom.Huang Yiping, Deputy Dean, National School of Development, Peking University, People's Republic of China.John Meacock, Global Chief Strategy Officer, Deloitte, USA.Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young Global Leader, Amy Bernstein, Editor, Harvard Business Review Magazine, Harvard Business Review Group, USA.captured during the Session "The Quest for Leadership 4.0" at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 in Dalian, People's Republic of China, July 3, 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
4 November 2019; Michelle Zatlyn, Co-founder, COO, Cloudflare, on Centre Stage during the opening night of Web Summit 2019 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Web Summit via Sportsfile
Almar Latour, Chief Executive Officer, Publisher, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, USA, Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA, Sir Martin Sorrell, Executive Chairman, S4Capital, United Kingdom, speaking in the Trustworthiness in the Digital Ecosystem session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 25 May. Congress Centre - Exchange. Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Valeriano di Domenico
Fortune Brainstorm TECH 2016
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13TH, 2016: ASPEN, CO
8:00 AM–8:45 AM
BREAKFAST ROUNDTABLES
ENCRYPTION AND SECURITY FOR THE THREAT-SET
Ask any board chairman or CEO—the most pressing issue by far at any corporation this year is cybersecurity. Have you been hacked? (Yes.) Will you be hacked again? (Yes.) What can you do about it? Attend this session and hear from top industry experts about what to look for and what to do about it.
Steve Herrod, Managing Director, General Catalyst Partners
Paul Judge, Chairman, Luma
Lara J. Warner, Chief Compliance and Regulatory Affairs Officer, Credit Suisse Group
Michelle Zatlyn, Head of User Experience, CloudFlare
Moderator: Robert Hackett, Fortune
Intelligence track hosted by KPMG
PHOTOGRAPH BY Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm TECH
Bank of America, Washington, DC
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Matthew Prince, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, CloudFlare, USA speaking in the In the Name of National Security session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 17 January. Sanada. Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Greg Beadle
Averting a Cyber Pandemic (Option 2)
Geneva - Switzerland, 25-29 January 2021.
Copyright ©️ World Economic Forum/Pascal Bitz
Jürgen Stock, Secretary-General, International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), Lyon Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Fortinet, USA
Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young Global Leader
Moderated by
Amy Bernstein, Editor, Harvard Business Review Magazine, Harvard Business Review Group, USA
Averting a Cyber Pandemic (Option 2)
Geneva - Switzerland, 25-29 January 2021.
Copyright ©️ World Economic Forum/Pascal Bitz
Jürgen Stock, Secretary-General, International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), Lyon Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Fortinet, USA
Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young Global Leader
Moderated by
Amy Bernstein, Editor, Harvard Business Review Magazine, Harvard Business Review Group, USA
Averting a Cyber Pandemic (Option 2)
Geneva - Switzerland, 25-29 January 2021.
Copyright ©️ World Economic Forum/Pascal Bitz
Jürgen Stock, Secretary-General, International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), Lyon Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Fortinet, USA
Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young Global Leader
Moderated by
Amy Bernstein, Editor, Harvard Business Review Magazine, Harvard Business Review Group, USA
Averting a Cyber Pandemic (Option 2)
Geneva - Switzerland, 25-29 January 2021.
Copyright ©️ World Economic Forum/Pascal Bitz
Jürgen Stock, Secretary-General, International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), Lyon Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Fortinet, USA
Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young Global Leader
Moderated by
Amy Bernstein, Editor, Harvard Business Review Magazine, Harvard Business Review Group, USA
Averting a Cyber Pandemic (Option 2)
Geneva - Switzerland, 25-29 January 2021.
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Jürgen Stock, Secretary-General, International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), Lyon Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Fortinet, USA
Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young Global Leader
Moderated by
Amy Bernstein, Editor, Harvard Business Review Magazine, Harvard Business Review Group, USA
Averting a Cyber Pandemic (Option 2)
Geneva - Switzerland, 25-29 January 2021.
Copyright ©️ World Economic Forum/Pascal Bitz
Jürgen Stock, Secretary-General, International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), Lyon Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Fortinet, USA
Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young Global Leader
Moderated by
Amy Bernstein, Editor, Harvard Business Review Magazine, Harvard Business Review Group, USA
Averting a Cyber Pandemic (Option 2)
Geneva - Switzerland, 25-29 January 2021.
Copyright ©️ World Economic Forum/Pascal Bitz
Jürgen Stock, Secretary-General, International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), Lyon Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Fortinet, USA
Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young Global Leader
Moderated by
Amy Bernstein, Editor, Harvard Business Review Magazine, Harvard Business Review Group, USA
Gideon Lichfield, Global Editorial Director, Wired Magazine, USA, Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy of Ukraine, Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, USA, Matthew Prince, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, CloudFlare, USA, Jake Loosararian, Chief Executive Officer, Gecko Robotics, USA speaking in the In the Name of National Security session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 17 January. Sanada. Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Greg Beadle
The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Surrey on Monday the 31st. July 1933 to:
Mrs. M. Sowden,
9 Hastings Terrace,
Shankhouse,
Cramlington,
Northumberland.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"I am going to the Isle
of Wight on Wednesday
morning, so my address
shall be
Inglefield,
Totland Bay,
Isle of Wight.
Hoping you are all well,
Love Sally".
County Hall
County Hall is a building in 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. 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.
Today, County Hall is the site of businesses and attractions, including the London Sea Life Aquarium, London Dungeon and a Namco Station amusement arcade. The London Eye is next to County Hall, and its visitor centre is inside the building.
There is also a suite of exhibition rooms which was home to the Saatchi Gallery from 2003 to 2006. Other parts of the building house two hotels (a budget Premier Inn & a 5 star Marriott Hotel), several restaurants, the UK headquarters of the company Cloudflare, and some flats.
Various spaces are available for hire for functions, including the council chamber at the heart of the building. Until January 2010 the Dali Universe was also in the building but this has now closed.
The main six storey building was designed by the 29-year-old architect Ralph Knott. His design bested 50 other entries in a ‘Design County Hall’ contest. It is faced in Portland stone from the Isle of Wight in an Edwardian Baroque style, and the foundations are composed of Cornish granite.
County Hall has seven miles of corridors. The total cost of construction was nearly £4 million.
Before its completion in 1922, the building was damaged by six bombs during the First World War.
Ralph Knott died in 1929; four years before the entire complex of seven buildings was completed.
The construction, which was undertaken by Holland, Hannen & Cubitts, started in 1911, and the building was opened in 1922 by King George V. The North and South blocks, which were built by Higgs and Hill, were added between 1936 and 1939. The Island block was not completed until 1974.
For 64 years County Hall served as the headquarters of local government for London. During the 1980's the then powerful Labour-controlled GLC led by Ken Livingstone was locked in conflict with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher. Since the Parliament buildings were just across the river from County Hall, the façade of County Hall frequently during her tenure served as a billboard for opposition slogans.
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 plans to relocate the London School of Economics to the site from its Westminster campus were overruled by Mrs Thatcher, seemingly disapproving of further slogans from students.
The building remained in use by 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 private investors.
On the 21st. 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 the rented area for exhibits.
Today (2019), a large proportion of the building, including the entire fifth floor, remains empty since the dissolution of the GLC.
The County Hall Island Block, an annex of the main building, 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 become a derelict eyesore.
Cockfosters Tube Station
So what else happened on the day that Sally posted the card?
Well, the 31st. July 1933 marked the opening of Cockfosters Tube Station on the London Underground network. It is the northern terminus of the Piccadilly line. It was Grade II Listed in May 1987.
The station is located on Cockfosters Road approximately nine miles (14 km) from central London.
History of Cockfosters Station
Cockfosters Station was the last of the stations on the extension of the line from Finsbury Park to do so, and four months after Oakwood station (then called Enfield West) opened.
Prior to its opening, Trent Park and Cock Fosters (an early spelling of the area's name) were suggested as alternative station names. However the original site hoarding displayed the name as a single word.
The Design of Cockfosters Station
The station was designed by Charles Holden in a modern European style using brick, glass and reinforced concrete. Compared with the other new stations Holden designed for the extension, Cockfosters' street buildings are modest in scale, lacking the mass of Oakwood or Arnos Grove or the avant-garde flourish of Southgate.
Holden's early design sketches show the station with two towers. The most striking feature of the station is the tall concrete and glass trainshed roof and platform canopies, which are supported by portal frames of narrow blade-like concrete columns and beams rising from the platforms and spanning across the tracks.
Cockfosters Station Today
The station has three tracks, with platforms numbered 1 to 4, the centre track being served from both sides by platforms 2 and 3. This is an example of the so-called Spanish solution.
Most eastbound Piccadilly trains terminate here, although some terminate at Arnos Grove or Oakwood, particularly in peak hours or in the evenings. Some trains may even terminate at Wood Green; however, this is only used very early in the morning or in emergency situations.
In September 2020, works to provide step-free access were completed, with a lift providing access to the platform, making Cockfosters the 80th. accessible Tube station.
The Future for Cockfosters Station
In the late 2010's, the station car park at Cockfosters was proposed by Transport for London (TfL) for property development, as part of TfL's plans to increase the amount of income generated from land in their ownership.
As of September 2020, over 350 new homes (with 40% affordable homes) are currently planned to be built on the current car park at the station by TfL and Grainger.
The proposals also include new public space, cycle parking and dedicated disabled car parking spaces. The proposal has been criticised by local residents, due to the loss of Tube car parking and the amount of new homes proposed on the site.
The "London Loop" walk uses the station's foot tunnel to cross Cockfosters Road.
Cockfosters Station in Popular Culture
Cockfosters tube station features prominently in the novel While England Sleeps by American author David Leavitt. One of the novel's protagonists is writing a book entitled 'The Train to Cockfosters'.
A commercial for Foster's lager shown on UK television in the 1980's features Paul Hogan sitting in an Underground station near to a Japanese man who is looking at the Tube map on the wall.
The man asks Hogan:
"Can you tell me the
way to Cockfosters?"
Hogan replies:
"Drink it warm, mate".
Anthony F. Fernandes, Group Chief Executive Officer, AirAsia, Malaysia, Abidali Neemuchwala, Chief Executive Officer, Wipro, India, William Ford, Chief Executive Officer, General Atlantic, USA, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist, United Kingdom, Matthew Prince, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, CloudFlare, USA, Thomas Farley, President and Chief Executive Officer, NYSE, USA capture during the Session: What Is Happening to IPOs? at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 24, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
4 November 2019; Michelle Zatlyn, Co-founder, COO, Cloudflare, Daniela Braga, Founder & CEO, DefinedCrowd, and Filomena Cautela, Presenter, RTP, on Centre Stage during the opening night of Web Summit 2019 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. Photo by Eóin Noonan/Web Summit via Sportsfile
Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young Global Leader, captured during the Session "The Quest for Leadership 4.0" at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 in Dalian, People's Republic of China, July 3, 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young Global Leader, captured during the Session "The Quest for Leadership 4.0" at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 in Dalian, People's Republic of China, July 3, 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
Fortune Brainstorm TECH 2016
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13TH, 2016: ASPEN, CO
8:00 AM–8:45 AM
BREAKFAST ROUNDTABLES
ENCRYPTION AND SECURITY FOR THE THREAT-SET
Ask any board chairman or CEO—the most pressing issue by far at any corporation this year is cybersecurity. Have you been hacked? (Yes.) Will you be hacked again? (Yes.) What can you do about it? Attend this session and hear from top industry experts about what to look for and what to do about it.
Steve Herrod, Managing Director, General Catalyst Partners
Paul Judge, Chairman, Luma
Lara J. Warner, Chief Compliance and Regulatory Affairs Officer, Credit Suisse Group
Michelle Zatlyn, Head of User Experience, CloudFlare
Moderator: Robert Hackett, Fortune
Intelligence track hosted by KPMG
PHOTOGRAPH BY Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm TECH
The panel Enass Abo-Hamed, Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom.Huang Yiping, Deputy Dean, National School of Development, Peking University, People's Republic of China.John Meacock, Global Chief Strategy Officer, Deloitte, USA.Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young Global Leader, Amy Bernstein, Editor, Harvard Business Review Magazine, Harvard Business Review Group, USA.captured during the Session "The Quest for Leadership 4.0" at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 in Dalian, People's Republic of China, July 3, 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young Global Leader, captured during the Session "The Quest for Leadership 4.0" at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 in Dalian, People's Republic of China, July 3, 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young Global Leader, captured during the Session "The Quest for Leadership 4.0" at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 in Dalian, People's Republic of China, July 3, 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
The panel Enass Abo-Hamed, Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom.Huang Yiping, Deputy Dean, National School of Development, Peking University, People's Republic of China.John Meacock, Global Chief Strategy Officer, Deloitte, USA.Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young Global Leader, Amy Bernstein, Editor, Harvard Business Review Magazine, Harvard Business Review Group, USA.captured during the Session "The Quest for Leadership 4.0" at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 in Dalian, People's Republic of China, July 3, 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
The panel Enass Abo-Hamed, Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom.Huang Yiping, Deputy Dean, National School of Development, Peking University, People's Republic of China.John Meacock, Global Chief Strategy Officer, Deloitte, USA.Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young Global Leader, Amy Bernstein, Editor, Harvard Business Review Magazine, Harvard Business Review Group, USA.captured during the Session "The Quest for Leadership 4.0" at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 in Dalian, People's Republic of China, July 3, 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
The panel Enass Abo-Hamed, Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom.Huang Yiping, Deputy Dean, National School of Development, Peking University, People's Republic of China.John Meacock, Global Chief Strategy Officer, Deloitte, USA.Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young Global Leader, Amy Bernstein, Editor, Harvard Business Review Magazine, Harvard Business Review Group, USA.captured during the Session "The Quest for Leadership 4.0" at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 in Dalian, People's Republic of China, July 3, 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
Matthew Prince, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, CloudFlare, USA and Alison Martin, Group Chief Risk Officer, Zurich Insurance Group, Switzerland speaking during the Session "Enhancing Cyber Resilience from the Top " at the Annual Meeting 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2019 - Centre Hub
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Manuel Lopez
Fortune Brainstorm TECH 2016
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13TH, 2016: ASPEN, CO
8:00 AM–8:45 AM
BREAKFAST ROUNDTABLES
ENCRYPTION AND SECURITY FOR THE THREAT-SET
Ask any board chairman or CEO—the most pressing issue by far at any corporation this year is cybersecurity. Have you been hacked? (Yes.) Will you be hacked again? (Yes.) What can you do about it? Attend this session and hear from top industry experts about what to look for and what to do about it.
Steve Herrod, Managing Director, General Catalyst Partners
Paul Judge, Chairman, Luma
Lara J. Warner, Chief Compliance and Regulatory Affairs Officer, Credit Suisse Group
Michelle Zatlyn, Head of User Experience, CloudFlare
Moderator: Robert Hackett, Fortune
Intelligence track hosted by KPMG
PHOTOGRAPH BY Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm TECH
The Postcard
A postally unused Valesque Series postcard published by Valentine & Sons Ltd. of Dundee and London. The card was printed in Great Britain.
The publishers have provided some information on the divided back of the card:
'Aerial View of Westminster Abbey
and Houses of Parliament, London.
This aerial view shows in the
foreground Westminster Abbey and
the Houses of Parliament with
Westminster Bridge leading over
the River Thames to County Hall on
the South Bank'.
The Palace of Westminster
The Palace of Westminster serves as the meeting place for both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Informally known as the Houses of Parliament after its occupants, the Palace lies on the north bank of the River Thames in the City of Westminster, in central London.
The first royal palace constructed on the site dated from the 11th century, and Westminster became the primary residence of the Kings of England until fire destroyed much of the complex in 1512.
After that, it served as the home of the Parliament of England, which had met there since the 13th century, and also as the seat of the Royal Courts of Justice, based in and around Westminster Hall. In 1834 an even greater fire ravaged the heavily rebuilt Houses of Parliament, and the only significant medieval structures to survive were Westminster Hall, the Cloisters of St Stephen's, the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft, and the Jewel Tower.
In the subsequent competition for the reconstruction of the Palace, the architect Charles Barry won with a design for new buildings in the Gothic Revival style, specifically inspired by the English Perpendicular Gothic style of the 14th.–16th. centuries.
The remains of the Old Palace (except the detached Jewel Tower) were incorporated into its much larger replacement, which contains over 1,100 rooms organised symmetrically around two series of courtyards, and which has a floor area of 112,476 m2 (1,210,680 sq ft).
Part of the New Palace's area of 3.24 hectares (8 acres) was reclaimed from the River Thames, which is the setting of its nearly 300-metre long (980 ft) façade, called the River Front.
Augustus Pugin, a leading authority on Gothic architecture and style, assisted Barry, and designed the interior of the Palace. Construction started in 1840 and lasted for 30 years, suffering great delays and cost overruns, as well as the death of both leading architects; works for the interior decoration continued intermittently well into the 20th century.
Major conservation work has taken place since then to reverse the effects of London's air pollution, and extensive repairs followed the Second World War, including the reconstruction of the Commons Chamber following its bombing in 1941.
The Elizabeth Tower, in particular, often referred to by the name of its main bell, Big Ben, has become an iconic landmark of London and of the United Kingdom in general, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city, and an emblem of parliamentary democracy.
Accolades for the Palace of Westminster
Tsar Nicholas I of Russia called the new palace 'A dream in stone'. The Palace of Westminster has been a Grade I listed building since 1970, and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987.
County Hall
County Hall is a building in 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. 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.
Today, County Hall is the site of businesses and attractions, including the London Sea Life Aquarium, London Dungeon and a Namco Station amusement arcade. The London Eye is next to County Hall, and its visitor centre is inside the building.
There is also a suite of exhibition rooms which was home to the Saatchi Gallery from 2003 to 2006. Other parts of the building house two hotels (a budget Premier Inn & a 5 star Marriott Hotel), several restaurants, the UK headquarters of the company Cloudflare, and some flats.
Various spaces are available for hire for functions, including the council chamber at the heart of the building. Until January 2010 the Dali Universe was also in the building but this has now closed.
The main six storey building was designed by the 29-year-old architect Ralph Knott. His design bested 50 other entries in a ‘Design County Hall’ contest. It is faced in Portland stone from the Isle of Wight in an Edwardian Baroque style, and the foundations are composed of Cornish granite.
County Hall has seven miles of corridors. The total cost of construction was nearly £4 million.
Before its completion in 1922, the building was damaged by six bombs during the First World War.
Ralph Knott died in 1929; four years before the entire complex of seven buildings was completed.
The construction, which was undertaken by Holland, Hannen & Cubitts, started in 1911, and the building was opened in 1922 by King George V. The North and South blocks, which were built by Higgs and Hill, were added between 1936 and 1939. The Island block was not completed until 1974.
For 64 years County Hall served as the headquarters of local government for London. During the 1980's the then powerful Labour-controlled GLC led by Ken Livingstone was locked in conflict with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher. Since the Parliament buildings were just across the river from County Hall, the façade of County Hall frequently during her tenure served as a billboard for opposition slogans.
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 plans to relocate the London School of Economics to the site from its Westminster campus were overruled by Mrs Thatcher, seemingly disapproving of further slogans from students.
The building remained in use by 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 private investors.
On the 21st. 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 the rented area for exhibits.
Today (2019), a large proportion of the building, including the entire fifth floor, remains empty since the dissolution of the GLC.
The County Hall Island Block, an annex of the main building, 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 become a derelict eyesore.