Spotlight on LCCI Network
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Answers to The Knowledge
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30 St Mary Axe – popularly known as‘ the Gherkin’. Designed by Norman Foster, it was completed in 2003. It also won the 2004 RIBA Stirling Prize.
Diane Abbot. She was elected MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1987. She still sits in Parliament today and is the‘ Mother of the House’.
Bankside Power Station. The oil-fired facility( designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, also responsible for Battersea Power Station) was decommissioned and shut down in 1981. It opened as an art gallery in 2000.
Arsenal, Brentford, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur.
A lack of drainage and a heatwave in Victorian London( in 1858 to be precise) which resulted in a foul smell so bad it prevented Parliament from sitting. The happy consequence was that engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette was appointed to design a new sewer system.
St John’ s Wood. It is on the Jubilee line between Baker Street and Swiss Cottage stations.
Christian May. This is his second spell at the paper having previously edited it from 2015 to 2020. Before that he was head of communications and campaigns at the Institute of Directors.
The International Maritime Organization – responsible for the safety and security of global shipping. Purpose-built, it was opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1983.
Doing the business
The library at London Marriott County Hall was the venue for a recent LCCI Business Owners Club networking reception. The former home of the Greater London Council – now a luxury hotel- provided stunning views of the Palace of Westminster as well a chance to network with a carefully-curated group of SME owners, founders and decision makers.
As event organiser Ciara Batchelor put it:“ This is networking done properly – relaxed, purposeful and genuinely valuable.”
“ This is networking done properly – relaxed, purposeful, and genuinely valuable.
The Business Owners Club is designed to foster business growth and resilience through peer-to-peer networking, collaboration and information sharing. Programme partners for the club are Dell Technologies, IHG Business Edge, and Intuit
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South African president Nelson Mandela. He was accompanied on the visit to south London by his daughter Zenani and the( then) Prince of Wales.
Oscar Wilde( 1854-1900). The abuse happened while he was being transferred from Wandsworth Prison to Reading Gaol.