June 3rd 2010 - 'Streaky Bacon Building'

This grade II listed building was constructed between 1896 and 1898, designed by architects Richard Norman Shaw and J. Francis Doyle. It was built for the Ismrie Shipping Company, which later became the White Star Line. Offically known as Albion House I think the most fascinating fact about the building is that when the news about the Titanic sinking in 1912 reached the offices, the White Star officials read the the names of the dead from the balcony (pictured) to hundreds of anxious relatives below.