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3 unusual facts about Millbank


Millbank

In British politics, the term 'Millbank Machine' or 'Millbank tendency' (a play on 'Militant tendency') has been linked with the activities of spin doctors.

There are parliamentary offices situated across this road, notably No.7, built as the headquarters of British American Tobacco.

RTÉ News and Current Affairs also have their London bureau at the same location.


Breakwater Lodge

The design with four castellated turrets and an enclosed courtyard was styled after Millbank and Pentonville prisons in England.

Richard Erdman

In 1965, he played Colonel Millbank in the episode "The Black Box" of CBS's Petticoat Junction, a rural sitcom starring Bea Benaderet and Edgar Buchanan.

Tate

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.


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