Waterloo Air Terminal
Waterloo Air Terminal
Record No
260
Title
Waterloo Air Terminal
Description
View from the roof of County Hall of Waterloo Air Terminal, adapted from the Festival of Britain's Station Gate Building. It was a passenger check-in facility and heliport used by British European Airways (BEA) and other European airlines between 1953 and 1957, when it was replaced by the West London Air Terminal. Passengers checked in, were issued with a boarding card, and were transported to either London Airport (Heathrow) or Northolt Airport using a fleet of coaches. Chicheley Street in the foreground was one of the entrances to the Festival site and the paved plaza and hexagonal kiosk sites can still be seen. To the far right, construction has begun on the redevelopment of the site. The Shell Centre was built on the site, and this part has been redeveloped and is now mixed office, residential and retail units known as Casson Square after the chief architect of the Festival of Britain, Sir Hugh Casson. On York Road is the Duke of York pub advertising 'Beers and Stouts', and is part of a three-storey terrace at 57-69 York Road including a Restaurant San Marco. At the rear of the terrace is the main terminus of Waterloo Station. In the centre is the railway viaduct which carries trains from Waterloo East (formerly Waterloo Junction Station) across Hungerford Bridge to Charing Cross. Behind this is the spire of St John's Church on Waterloo Road. This was badly damaged by bombing in World War II and was restored in 1950; it is Grade II* listed, listing number 1357954. To its left is Waterloo Bridge House built in 1936 which contained offices and a Post Office. It is now part of the campus of Kings College London and is known as the James Clerk Maxwell Building.
Date of execution
1958
Section
London Metropolitan Archives
Collection
Print Collection
Artist
Mills
Engraver
anon.
Publisher
Hogg, A.
Medium
engraving
Support
paper
Longest dimension
21cms
Shortest dimension
10cms
Catalogue No
v9011962
London picture map location
Exact
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