140 Gower Street

April 2022 140 Gower Street Corner of Gower Street and Euston Road.jpg 140 Gower Street (on the immediate left) c.1950 Gower Street, London 10 51.52543 N 0.13566 W title 140 Gower Street was the headquarters of the Security Service (MI5) from 1976 to 1994. The site was acquired by the Wellcome Trust in 1998. History In the late 19th century the site at 140 Gower Street was occupied by a modest three-story building which was used by George J. W. Pitman, book publishers.http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3335776/3335780 Stammering, stuttering and lisping The Cambrian 13 May 1881 4 18 February 2017 Then in the first half of the 20th century the same building was used for the secondhand book sectionhttp://www.auspostalhistory.com/articles/972.php H.K. Lewis, Book Publisher, Seller & Lending Library, London Australian Postal History and Social Philately 17 February 2017 of H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., book sellers.'Plate 31: No. 140 Gower Street', in Survey of London: Volume 21, the Parish of St Pancras Part 3: Tottenham Court Road and Neighbourhood J R Howard Roberts Walter H Godfrey London 1949 31 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol21/pt3/plate-31 17 February 2017'Plate 32: No. 140 Gower Street', in Survey of London: Volume 21, the Parish of St Pancras Part 3: Tottenham Court Road and Neighbourhood J R Howard Roberts Walter H Godfrey London 1949 32 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol21/pt3/plate-32 17 February 2017'Gower Street', in Survey of London: Volume 21, the Parish of St Pancras Part 3: Tottenham Court Road and Neighbourhood J R Howard Roberts Walter H Godfrey London 1949 78–84 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol21/pt3/pp78-84 17 February 2017 In 1950 the site was acquired by a property developer.http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=4957&dsqSearch=(AltRefNo%3D%27wf%27) Sale of sites adjoining Euston Square Station, London The Wellcome Library 17 February 2017 After the bookshop was demolished, the site was redeveloped and a new ten-story building constructed in the early 1950s.https://books.google.com/books?id=e0d-AwAAQBAJ&q=site+89%3A+140+Gower+Street&pg=PA233 A Spy's London Roy Berkeley 233 2014 Pen and Sword 978-1473827202 The new building was occupied by various government offices including the Commission on Industrial Relations.e 19109 552 23 June 1972 The Security Service (MI5), who had relocated from Leconfield House, occupied the new building, known simply as "140 Gower Street", in 1976:http://www.geocities.ws/foxeye121/curzon.htm The Secret Architecture of London Geocities 18 February 2017 the Director-General's office was on the 6th floor.Peter Wright 1 Spycatcher https://archive.org/details/spycatcher00wrig registration 1987 William Heinemann Australia 978-0855611668 MI5 moved out of the building to Thames House in 1994 and the site was acquired by the Wellcome Trust in 1998 and then redeveloped as "Babcock House".Value Added Tax and Duties Tribunals reports https://books.google.com/books?id=dIxkQntfWcAC&q=babcock+house+euston+road&pg=PA512 512 The Stationery Office 2010 978-0117836501 References 30em Category:Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Camden Category:Intelligence agency headquarters in the United Kingdom Category:MI5