Shell-Mex House in London

• Construction finish: 1931
• Type: Office Building
• Maximum Height: 190 feet / 58 meters

• Savoy Hotel
• The Adelphi
• Cleopatra's Needle
• Covent Garden Market
• Charing Cross Hotel
• Charing Cross Station
• London Transport Museum
• Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross
• Somerset House
• Charing Cross

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  would be very interested to learn more about the use of Shell-Mex House during the V1 and V2 attacks in WWII. I believe the Special Repair Service squad leaders would sit on the roof watching for the rockets to come over and became very skilled at estimating where the things would land once the engine stopped. The squads would be on their way to the site sometimes before the thing exploded. My father was, I believe, the boss man of these squads but he didn't talk about it much..

gerald williams - Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 @ 2:10pm  

  The two huge figures on either side of the clock tower were designed and executed by William Charles Holland King who employed a team of Italian stone carvers to rough out the work. He later became President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

b w ardin - Monday, October 2nd, 2006 @ 5:46pm