The WC (Western Central) postcode area , also known as the London WC postcode area , is a group of postcode districts in central London , England. The area covered is of high density development, and includes parts of the City of Westminster and the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington , plus a very small part of the City of London .
16-628: WC2 may stand for: WC2, a postcode district in the WC postcode area for central London White Collar-2 , a blue light photoreceptor in fungi Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi , a 1991 space combat simulation video game Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness , a 1995 real-time strategy video game Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal , expansion pack to Tides of Darkness WC2 University Network ,
32-494: A memorial honouring the victims and the efforts of those who gave assistance was unveiled in Tavistock Square Gardens, replacing a plaque that had been fixed to the railings outside BMA House, opposite to the new site. The centre-piece of the gardens is a statue of Mahatma Gandhi , sculpted by Fredda Brilliant and installed in 1968. The hollow pedestal was intended, and is used, for people to leave floral tributes to
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64-532: A small part towards the east is within the London Borough of Islington . It includes the British Museum and buildings owned by the federal University of London and its constituent colleges and institutes. The WC2 postcode district ( 51°30′50″N 0°07′26″W / 51.514°N 0.124°W / 51.514; -0.124 ( WC2 ) ) is roughly bounded by Chancery Lane and Essex Street to
80-458: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WC postcode area The WC1 and WC2 postcode districts are relatively recent, having been established in 1917. When the districts are used for purposes other than the sorting of mail, such as for geographic reference and on street signs, their subdivisions - featuring letter suffixes - are often omitted. WC1 and WC2 postcode districts are part of
96-464: The Hogarth Press , which became a prominent and influential publisher at the forefront of modernist fiction and poetry (publishing T.S. Eliot , E.M. Forster and Katherine Mansfield among others) and translating the works of Sigmund Freud into English. The square contains a memorial to the surgeon Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake (1865 –1925), with a bust of Aldrich-Blake by Arthur George Walker on
112-573: The London post town . Until created in 1917 they comprised the WC postal district. There are no postally-recognised localities used in them. No great recoding in this postcode area took place from 1990 to 2007. Post Offices in WC1 are at Grays Inn, Marchmont Street, Southampton Row, at High Holborn and nearby parallel New Oxford Street and in the other clustered at Aldwych and Strand. The Western Central District Office
128-624: The London Borough of Camden and some small areas in the east in the City of London . It includes Somerset House , colleges of the University of London like King's College London (Strand campus), and the National Portrait Gallery . Tavistock Square Tavistock Square is a public square in Bloomsbury , in the London Borough of Camden near Euston Station . Tavistock Square
144-503: The east, High Holborn and New Oxford Street to the north (the boundary with WC1), Wardour Street and Witcomb Street to the west and Northumberland Avenue and the River Thames to the south. It includes Leicester Square , Trafalgar Square and the Aldwych . It corresponds roughly to the former district of Strand . It is mostly within the City of Westminster with the northern section in
160-438: The east; New Oxford Street and High Holborn to the south (the boundary with WC2); Tottenham Court Road to the west; and Euston Road and Pentonville Road to the north, and approximately corresponds to the modern district of Bloomsbury , with parts of Holborn , King's Cross and St Pancras . It includes Russell Square , Tavistock Square and Coram's Fields . It is mostly within the London Borough of Camden , although
176-595: The peace campaigner and nonviolent resister to oppression in South Africa and British rule in India . A cherry tree was planted in 1967 in memory of the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . A generation later, in 1994, the Conscientious Objectors Commemorative Stone commemorating "men and women conscientious objectors all over the world and in every age" by Hugh Court
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#1733085457894192-657: Was built shortly after 1806 by the property developer James Burton and the master builder Thomas Cubitt for Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford , and formed part of the Bedford Estate in London, owned by the Dukes of Bedford . The square takes its name from Marquess of Tavistock , a courtesy title given to the eldest sons of the Dukes of Bedford. In 1920 the Tavistock Clinic
208-612: Was founded in the square, a pioneering psychiatric clinic whose patients included shell-shock victims of the First World War . In 1946 the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations separated from the Tavistock Clinic. The Tavistock Clinic has since moved to Swiss Cottage . Richard Lydekker , naturalist , geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history , was born at Tavistock Square in 1849. Tavistock Square
224-459: Was on New Oxford Street, a stop on the underground London Post Office Railway . Deliveries for the area come from Mount Pleasant Mail Centre , west of Farringdon Road . The postcode districts are, with approximate coverage: The WC1 postcode district ( 51°30′50″N 0°07′12″W / 51.514°N 0.120°W / 51.514; -0.120 ( WC1 ) ) is roughly bounded by Amwell Street, Rosebery Avenue and Gray's Inn Road to
240-626: Was the scene of one of the four suicide bombings on 7 July 2005 . The bomb was detonated by 18-year-old Hasib Hussain on a double-decker bus bearing route number 30 ; it had been diverted from its normal route along Euston Road because of traffic disruption by the other three bombings at tube stations . The bomb exploded immediately outside the British Medical Association building, many of whose staff came out to give what help they could. The explosion killed 13 passengers, plus Hussain himself. Many others were injured. In September 2018,
256-455: Was unveiled. These three features have led to the square unofficially being regarded by some as a peace park or garden, and annual ceremonies are held at each of these memorials. A bust of the writer Virginia Woolf , cast from a 1931 sculpture by Stephen Tomlin (1901–1937), was unveiled in 2004 at the southwest corner of the square. Woolf lived at 52 Tavistock Square between 1924 and 1939. From there she and her husband Leonard Woolf ran
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