Uploaded October 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
National Liberal Club at Open House London 2018
Founded in 1882 by William Ewart Gladstone, the National Liberal Club exists to provide the very best club facilities for relaxing and entertaining in the heart of London, for members whose interests vary from liberal politics to the liberal arts.
The club remains completely independent of any party, but as the name implies, continues to be closely identified with the Liberal tradition, and Liberals worldwide. The NLC's liberal heritage meant that it was conceived as a club that should be able to outshine any of the more established aristocratic clubs of London; but for membership to remain much more accessible than other clubs. It was one of London's first major gentlemen's clubs to admit women as full members; and from its launch in the 1880s it was unusual in embracing a diverse range of members of many different ethnic, social and religious backgrounds.
Overlooking the Thames, with "the most splendid terrace in London", the club is within easy reach of Whitehall, the West End, the City and Theatreland. The club is blessed with an extraordinary building by noted Victorian architect Alfred Waterhouse, and is also conveniently situated for underground and mainline stations which are close by. Members also enjoy access to an extensive worldwide network of over 180 hand-picked reciprocal clubs in more than 30 different countries.
Over the years, members have included H.H Asquith, Charles Bradlaugh, Rupert Brooke, G.K. Chesterton, Winston Churchill, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Henry George, Anthony Hope, Sir C.P. Ramaswami Iyer, Muhammed Ali Jinnah, David Lloyd George, Ramsay Macdonald, Dadabhai Naoroji, George Bernard Shaw, Bram Stoker, Dylan Thomas, H.G. Wells and Leonard Woolf.
The National Liberal Club - также известный как NLC, был создан в 1882 году Уильямом Юартом Гладстоном, теоретиком и практиком британского либерализма, для членов Либеральной партии, лидером которой он был с 1865 года.
Клуб размещается в здании, пристроенном к Уайтхолл-корт в 1884-87 годах (архитектор Альфред Уотерхауз) в примерно в одном с ним стиле, но все же в деталях ближе к фламандскому ренессансу, да и выделяется своей башней в стиле нео-готики в северо-восточном углу.
В его нынешних помещениях есть столовая, бар, залы для проведения совещаний, бильярдная, комната для курения, библиотека и открытая терраса с видом на Темзу.
Во второй половине 1980-х клуб, оставив себе первые два этажа, продал часть своих помещений с третьего по восьмой этаж и один из входов в здание Royal Horseguards Hotel, работающему с 1971 года в смежном здании. Изначально рассчитанный на 6000 членов, сегодня клуб предоставляет свои услуги для почти 2000 своих членов.
В клуб принимают по рекомендации двух действительных его членов. Клуб не раз послужил съемочной площадкой для разных фильмов – «Казино Рояль» (1967), "Карточный домик", второй эпизод (1990), "Уинстон Черчилль: Дикие годы" (мини-сериал), 1981 год.
National Liberal Club at Open House London 2018
Founded in 1882 by William Ewart Gladstone, the National Liberal Club exists to provide the very best club facilities for relaxing and entertaining in the heart of London, for members whose interests vary from liberal politics to the liberal arts.
The club remains completely independent of any party, but as the name implies, continues to be closely identified with the Liberal tradition, and Liberals worldwide. The NLC's liberal heritage meant that it was conceived as a club that should be able to outshine any of the more established aristocratic clubs of London; but for membership to remain much more accessible than other clubs. It was one of London's first major gentlemen's clubs to admit women as full members; and from its launch in the 1880s it was unusual in embracing a diverse range of members of many different ethnic, social and religious backgrounds.
Overlooking the Thames, with "the most splendid terrace in London", the club is within easy reach of Whitehall, the West End, the City and Theatreland. The club is blessed with an extraordinary building by noted Victorian architect Alfred Waterhouse, and is also conveniently situated for underground and mainline stations which are close by. Members also enjoy access to an extensive worldwide network of over 180 hand-picked reciprocal clubs in more than 30 different countries.
Over the years, members have included H.H Asquith, Charles Bradlaugh, Rupert Brooke, G.K. Chesterton, Winston Churchill, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Henry George, Anthony Hope, Sir C.P. Ramaswami Iyer, Muhammed Ali Jinnah, David Lloyd George, Ramsay Macdonald, Dadabhai Naoroji, George Bernard Shaw, Bram Stoker, Dylan Thomas, H.G. Wells and Leonard Woolf.
The National Liberal Club - также известный как NLC, был создан в 1882 году Уильямом Юартом Гладстоном, теоретиком и практиком британского либерализма, для членов Либеральной партии, лидером которой он был с 1865 года.
Клуб размещается в здании, пристроенном к Уайтхолл-корт в 1884-87 годах (архитектор Альфред Уотерхауз) в примерно в одном с ним стиле, но все же в деталях ближе к фламандскому ренессансу, да и выделяется своей башней в стиле нео-готики в северо-восточном углу.
В его нынешних помещениях есть столовая, бар, залы для проведения совещаний, бильярдная, комната для курения, библиотека и открытая терраса с видом на Темзу.
Во второй половине 1980-х клуб, оставив себе первые два этажа, продал часть своих помещений с третьего по восьмой этаж и один из входов в здание Royal Horseguards Hotel, работающему с 1971 года в смежном здании. Изначально рассчитанный на 6000 членов, сегодня клуб предоставляет свои услуги для почти 2000 своих членов.
В клуб принимают по рекомендации двух действительных его членов. Клуб не раз послужил съемочной площадкой для разных фильмов – «Казино Рояль» (1967), "Карточный домик", второй эпизод (1990), "Уинстон Черчилль: Дикие годы" (мини-сериал), 1981 год.









![LONDON TUBE: Westminster Station
LONDON TUBE: Westminster Station
Westminster is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster. It is served by the Circle, District and Jubilee lines. On the Circle and District lines, the station is between St. Jamess Park and Embankment, and on the Jubilee line it is between Green Park and Waterloo. It is in Travelcard Zone 1. The station is located at the corner of Bridge Street and Victoria Embankment and is close to the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Parliament Square, Whitehall, Westminster Bridge, and the London Eye. Also close by are Downing Street, the Cenotaph, Westminster Millennium Pier, the Treasury, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the Supreme Court.
The station is in two parts: sub-surface platforms opened in 1868 by the District Railway (DR) as part of the companys first section of the Inner Circle route and deep level platforms opened in 1999 as part of the Jubilee line extension from Green Park to Stratford. A variety of underground and main line services have operated over the sub-surface tracks, but the original station was completely rebuilt in conjunction with the construction of the deep level platforms and Portcullis House, which sits above the station.
The construction of the deep-level station involved the excavation of a 39-metre (128 ft) deep void around and beneath the sub-surface station to house the escalators to the Jubilee line platforms. The void, known as the station box, was the deepest ever excavation in central London and was carried out between thick reinforced concrete diaphragm walls stiffened and braced horizontally for stability. Under Bridge Street, on the south side of the station box, the two Jubilee line platform tunnels are arranged with the westbound platform below the eastbound.
The depth of the station box excavation and the proximity of the tunnels represented a significant risk to the stability of the foundation of the Houses of Parliaments clock tower (popularly known as Big Ben), which stands only 34 metres (112 ft) from the edge of the station box. To protect the foundation and manage settlement in the sub-soil, a series of 50-metre (160 ft) long steel tubes were installed horizontally around and beneath the clock towers 3-metre (9.8 ft) thick foundation.
The tubes were provided with a control system through which grout was injected into the ground to compensate for settlement detected from detailed measurements of the clock towers position. As excavation of the station box and the tunnels took place, grout was injected on 22 occasions between January 1996 and September 1997. The process limited the movement of the clock tower to an acceptable maximum of 35 millimetres (1.4 in). Without the grout injection, the movement would have been at least 120 millimetres (4.7 in) causing cracking to the structure of the tower and the Houses of Parliament.[14] The Jubilee line platforms were opened on 22 December 1999, although trains had been running through the station without stopping since 20 November 1999.
The stations architecture is an austere combination of concrete and stainless steel, with stacked banks of escalators supported from the cross-bracing structures spanning the station box and routes for passengers entering or leaving the station separated from those changing between lines. As with the other underground stations on the extension, the Jubilee line platforms feature platform edge doors to improve airflow through the system and increase safety.
The station design won a number of awards including Civic Trust awards in 2000 and 2002, the Royal Fine Art Commission Millennium Building of the Year award in 2000 and the RIBA Award for Architecture in 2001. Both projects were jointly short-listed in 2001 for the RIBAs prestigious Stirling Prize. LONDON TUBE: Westminster Station](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/48_VzWO65gk/mqdefault.jpg)
