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11 unusual facts about Mansion House


Agadir Crisis

On 21 July David Lloyd George delivered the Mansion House speech in which he declared that national honour was more precious than peace.

Bank–Monument station

The station, with platforms under Queen Victoria Street and close to Mansion House, opened on 8 August 1898 as "City".

Dawson Street

Saint Ann's Church is found on the eastern side and the Mansion House near the south end.

Fred Appleyard

The painting "Old Walls" is hanging at the Mansion House in Doncaster.

Jacques Callot

The former title comes from a father and son who were paid to wander around the Mansion House are in London wearing oversized hats that contained advertisements.

Lord Mayor's Show

On the day after being sworn in, the Lord Mayor and several others participate in a procession from the Guildhall, via Mansion House and St Paul's Cathedral, in the heart of the City of London, to the Royal Courts of Justice on the edge of the City of Westminster, where the new Lord Mayor swears allegiance to the Crown.

The Lord Mayor is escorted to his or her coach in Guildhall Yard by the Court of Aldermen and sets off to Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor.

Mansion House, Newport

It was refurbished in 2011 and re-opened as the City's Register office in July of that year.

Metropolitan Buildings Office

Buildings in this category included royal palaces, bridges, embankments, wharves, gaols and prisons, the Mansion House, the Guildhall, the Royal Exchange, the British Museum and Covent Garden Market.

Philip Furneaux

It arose out of an expedient adopted in 1748 by the Corporation of London to raise money for building the Mansion House, by fining nonconformists who declined to qualify for the office of Sheriff of London in accordance with the Sacramental Test Act.

The Banqueting House

Mansion House, London, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London


Alderley Park

In the 1580s John Stanley's descendant, Thomas Stanley, built a mansion house on a moated site near the mill at Nether Alderley.