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21st July 1964 Tottenham Hotspur's Scottish striker John White is killed by lightning playing golf in North London.
21st July 1938 Paul Hindemith and Leonide Massines ballet premieres in London
21st July 1884 The First Test was held at Lord's Cricket Ground.
21st July 1866 Cholera-epidemic kills hundreds in London
21st July 1863 Born today: C[harles] Aubrey Smith, London England, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
Wandsworths Patriotic Building
The infamous London Reception Centre of World War II.
Location: John Archer Way, Wandsworth, SW18 3SX
Description: The magnificent Royal Victoria Patriotic Building is a massive gothic Victorian building in Wandsworth combining Scottish Baronial and French Chteauesque.
Dating to 1859 it began as the Royal Victoria Patriotic School, an asylum for girls orphaned during the Crimean War. They had it tough, having to pump water up to the tanks in the towers, as well as do all the washing. They also had to wash outside in cold water.
During the Second World War, MI5 used it as the infamous London Reception Centre. Interrogators including 'spycatcher' Colonel Oreste Pinto interviewed over 30,000 immigrants here over a period of four years.
It's a Grade II* Listed Building designed by the architect Major Rohde Hawkins.
Above the entrance is a spendid statue of St George and the Dragon in a niche.
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