Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Millbank


Related Topics

In the News (Mon 20 May 13)

  
  Millbank Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Millbank Tower from the south, taken from Vauxhall bridge.
Millbank Tower is a skyscraper in Central London at 21-24 Millbank, City of Westminster.
The most famous resident in Millbank Tower's history was the Labour Party, although contrary to popular perception the Party never occupied any space in the tower itself.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Millbank_Tower   (282 words)

  
 Millbank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Millbank is an area of London, England, that is east of Pimlico and south of Westminster.
By the 18th century the area was dominated by a jail used in the deportation of prisoners to the British colonies.
Millbank is also the name of the main road (A3212) along the north bank of the river, extending northwards from Vauxhall Bridge Road to Abingdon Street, just south of Parliament Square.
www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Millbank   (323 words)

  
 Millbank Electronics ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Millbank’s loop systems are ideal for normal hearing loop applications but can also be used for diverse applications such as museum narration or secret paging in a shopping mall environment.
Millbank also supplied and commissioned Signet loop systems for five meeting or conference rooms, which also have additional auxiliary inputs, this enables the systems to be integrated if required to provide a full AV presentation.
Millbank’s new DsPAC has been designed from the ground up at their Macclesfield HQ and features as part of their modernisation programme and a continually expanding product portfolio.
www.millbank.co.uk /news.htm   (2620 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | The towering infernal
The move to Millbank, therefore, was hugely symbolic and once Mandelson and his pals moved in, the building took on a slightly darker, more intimidating image.
This was where the teenage "Millbank tendency" presided over the rapid rebuttal unit, designed to nuke Tory propaganda before it left the launch pad and the infamous Excalibur computer which rivalled MI5 in the information it held on anybody and everybody, friend or foe.
If Millbank came to resemble anything, it was one of Star Trek's villainous Borg cubes from which half-human half-robot drones were sent out into the universe to assimilate all opposition.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2211816.stm   (699 words)

  
 Millbank House & Angling Centre, for a memorable Irish Fishing Holiday
Millbank House and the Shannon Region of Ireland
Millbank House was built in 1733 by the Keays family and today is the home of Richard and Eleanor Keays.
Millbank has been taking care of guests for over thirty years and always looks forward to seeing many familar faces returning year after year.
www.millbankhouse.com   (497 words)

  
 Victorian London - Prisons - Millbank Prison
It was first named "The Penitentiary," or "Penitentiary House for London and Middlesex," and was called "The Millbank Prison" pursuant to 6 and 7 of Victoria, c.26.
Every male and female convict sentenced to transportation in Great Britain is sent to Millbank previous to the sentence being executed.
Millbank Prison stands on the river bank, near Vauxhall-bridge.
www.victorianlondon.org /prisons/millbankprison.htm   (592 words)

  
 New Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Millbank Public School takes pride in being a community resource that is dedicated to educating children in partnership with the community.
Millbank Public School strives to provide an excellent education for our students in a caring, safe, tolerant and stimulating environment.
Millbank Public School is a small rural school, approximately 50 km west of Kempsey.
www.millbank-p.schools.nsw.edu.au   (170 words)

  
 Bad debts force Millbank to bow out of channel - vnunet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Millbank Computers, one of the channel's longest-running distributors, collapsed into liquidation last week after failing to recover from a series of bad debts.
The Millbank EPoS Warehouse division was created to target the convenience store market, and the company recruited Danny Hamilton from rival distributor PC-PoS to head the division.
Tim Mott, managing director of Millbank, was out of the country and unavailable for comment at the time of going to press.
www.vnunet.com /crn/news/2006328/bad-debts-force-millbank-bow-channel   (494 words)

  
 Property- Houses for sale - Attleborough, Norfolk.
Millbank Estate Agents are an established leading independent firm with a reputation for providing a first class professional service with high standards of excellence thus resulting in many referrals and recommendations.
Millbank Estate Agents are members of the National Association of Estate Agents Homelink service with over 1000 offices nationwide.
Millbank Estate Agents are also active members of the Nationwide Relocation Group “Move With Us” with over 500 strong independently owned offices throughout the South East of England.
www.millbanks.com   (248 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Office politics
Millbank Tower owes nothing to the history of the street it rises from, nor to local architectural styles.
Buildings such as Millbank Tower and its contemporary, Euston Tower, were meant to be domineering, yet at the same time all but anonymous command posts of both the embyronic computer age and of burgeoning global capitalism.
Remarkably, the irony that Millbank Tower just happens to stand on the site of the house Tony Benn was born in passed most of the apparatchiks by.
www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,779248,00.html   (1897 words)

  
 Millbank Holdings Limited :: Group Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Priory Design Services, the engineering recruitment division of Millbank Holdings, are proud to announce that they have signed a long term agreement with Aston Martin Lagonda to provide them with engineering and design consultants.
Millbank has a long standing relationship with AML and is very honoured to become a Preferred Supplier to such a prestigious company.
Millbank Holdings Limited is a multi-disciplined recruitment and project management organisations, employing over 100 staff and based in Runcorn, Cheshire.
www.millbank.com /news.html   (598 words)

  
 Millbank biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Millbank is an area of London, England, that is north of Pimlico and south of Westminster.
By the 18th Century the area was dominated by a jail used in the deportation of other prisoners to the colonies.
Millbank is a road on the north bank of the river.
millbank.biography.ms   (192 words)

  
 Observer | The old communists of New Labour
Charles Clarke, the party chairman, is insistent that the move out of the Millbank HQ to cheaper and more modest offices in Old Queen Street is very much more than a mere change of address.
New Labour in its Millbank mode was essentially about the suppression of Labour's traditional instincts in an attempt to appeal to middle Britain.
Millbank did this by eliminating debate on issues close to the heart of activists.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4488388-102273,00.html   (1174 words)

  
 Millbank Studios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Millbank Studios is used to playing host to high profile politicians, but the sight
Millbank Studios is an independent Broadcast facilities company located in the heart of Westminster.
At the heart of the Westminster Media village, we are in the best possible position to supply facilities for day to day breaking news and current affairs as well as grand ceremonial occasions such as the Queen Mother's funeral, Trooping the Colour and State visits.
www.millbank-studios.co.uk   (232 words)

  
 Millbank Studios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Millbank Studios has the facilities to send and receive numerous video and audio packages throughout the UK and internationally.
Millbank Studios Master Control Room has 3 outgoing and one incoming Video Circuit to the UK's main switching center at BT Tower.
All our crews are accredited for Downing Street access and regularly take their position along side reporters and crews from around the world to cover events from one of London's most famous streets.
www.millbank-studios.co.uk /Lines.htm   (228 words)

  
 BBC News | UK | R.I.P. Millbank Tower
The computer, kept in Millbank, allowed party apparatchiks to sift through speeches, newspaper clippings and other documents to confound the arguments of any opponent.
In retrospect, friends will wonder if Millbank's fate was not somehow foreshadowed by the loss of Peter Mandelson, and by the demise of the pager.
As a Grade II listed building, Millbank's physical form will be preserved, but with its red blood drained, it will be but a shell of its former self.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk/1431688.stm   (413 words)

  
 Millbank Lounge London bar
Millbank Lounge, a stylish cocktail bar offering a cosmopolitan and innovative drinks list and featuring an extensive whisky library, is fast becoming a firm favourite with London's bar aficionados.
From a sorbet sunburn, lemon sorbet and krupnik honey liqueur laced with maraschino, to a mandarin drift, peaches and cream given an absolut mandarin citrus kick, accompany these with our world tapas and treat yourself or share with friends.
Between 12 noon and 5pm everyday until the end of August you can also enjoy three delicious tapas from the Millbank Mix and a glass of Concha y Toro Chardonnay or Merlot for a fabulous £10.
www.cityinn.com /london/eating_drinking/millbanklounge.htm   (203 words)

  
 Millbank   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Millbank is on the otherside of the Thames to Vauxhall and takes its name from the mill belonging to Westminster Abbey.
The house was pulled down around 1809 and a prison (Millbank Penitentiary), designed by Jeremy Bentham, was built at the cost of £500,000 and finally finished in 1821.
In 1843 it was converted to house general prisoners and later it held military prisoners.
www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk /Millbank.html   (341 words)

  
 The Winchester Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
One of the few remaining relics of the Civil War’s Third Battle of Winchester, the Millbank House, could soon be reduced to a pile of bricks and a few banisters.
When plans were announced to demolish the Millbank House in the late 1980s, a battle began between the Service Authority, Preservation of Historic Winchester Inc., and other parties interested in preserving the Civil War landmark.
The Millbank House, Ritter said, is one of the last standing landmarks of Third Winchester.
www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/050222/Area_millbank.asp   (907 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Millbank
Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar.
Millbank Tower, from the north Millbank Tower from the south, taken from Vauxhall bridge.
It broadcasts live and recorded coverage of the British House of Commons and House of Lords, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Millbank   (1257 words)

  
 Langlands & Bell
Millbank Penitentiary was a prison which existed on the site of what is now Tate Britain in London.
Millbank Penitentiary embodies many paradoxes: the flower like formality of the punitive plan, and the journey from Old World penal institution to modern day art gallery.
The works are split up in much the same way as the Millbank prisoners, categorised, and treated differently in each section.
www.langlandsandbell.demon.co.uk /mil01.html   (177 words)

  
 Millbank   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
En política británica la máquina de Millbank del término o la tendencia de Millbank fue utilizada a referir a éstos que fueron miradas por alguno como doctores de la vuelta.
Los estudios de Millbank, compañía de servicios independiente de la difusión, se basan en el área, enfrente de las casas del parlamento.
A Millbank Studios dirige al parlamento de BBC, un canal dedicado al cubrimiento político parlamentario y general a nombre del BBC.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/mi/Millbank.htm   (241 words)

  
 Archinect : Features : Millbank Pier
The Millbank Millennium Pier by the architecture practice of David Marks and Julia Barfield is the latest addition to the riverbus transport network serving the Thames River.
The Millbank pier doesn't look like a pier in the sense that it doesn't look like a platform; instead, it looks like a boat or perhaps even better, Disney's version of the Nautilus.
For this task, it is common (and cheaper) to use submerged cables fixing the pontoon, but because the Millbank pier is a permanent structure the bridge solution was adopted.
www.archinect.com /features/article.php?id=448_0_23_0_M   (974 words)

  
 Millbank - A Visit You’ll Remember!
Millbank was founded in 1848 by a group of settlers from Northern Ireland.
Today as you visit the Millbank area, the echoes of the past still murmur on, as evident in the many unique stops along the way.
Your visit to the Millbank area would not be complete if you did not share the parking space with a horse-drawn buggy or two, as the Amish and Old Order Mennonites come to town to do their shopping.
www.visitperth.ca /millbank.html   (463 words)

  
 Millbank Media Centre - Services
Millbank Media Centre is the most advanced conference and meeting centre of its kind in central London.
Opened in January 1996 from extensive refurbishment, Millbank Media Centre is a state of the art technical and presentation facility for conferences, broadcasts and media training.
Our professional event management team and technical staff, provide the highest level of service and attention to detail to ensure that your event is a complete success.
www.poptel.org.uk /media-centre/services.html   (279 words)

  
 Political Wire: Millbank's Votes
Over the weekend, Dana Millbank wrote a piece on media bias.
It's a free country and no one -- including reporters -- should feel compelled to disclose their voting preferences.
But it's interesting Millbank chose to share it nonetheless.
politicalwire.com /archives/2005/03/21/millbanks_votes.html   (293 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Millbank grabs reins to secure favourites seats
The party's national executive committee is expected to get the power to draw up shortlists in any seats that fall vacant after January 31, amid grassroots pressure to ensure that more women get the chance to fight for seats and maintain the number of women MPs at Westminster - a record 101 in 1997.
The move at today's monthly NEC meeting is further evidence that an election is imminent, probably on May 3, and it will give Millbank considerable influence over who is selected.
Among those Millbank is thought to be seeking a seat for is Shaun Woodward, the Tory-turned-Labour MP exempted from the "chicken run" ban after deciding not to stand again in the Witney seat, which he won for the Conservatives in 1997.
www.guardian.co.uk /countdown/story/0,7369,426789,00.html   (399 words)

  
 CAPT. H. R. MILLBANK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Millbank" was one of Edward S. Ellis' numerous pseudonyms.
Millbank, Irwin P. Beadle's American Novels, no. 44, Starr's American Novels, no. 13, and Dime Novels, no. 155, is identical with "The Jungle Scout," by Capt. R.
Hawthorne was one of Ellis' noms de flume, consequently Millbank, also, is Ellis.
www.niulib.niu.edu /badndp/millbank_h.html   (69 words)

  
 DED picks up the remains of Millbank - Information World Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Computer Reseller News revealed two weeks ago that Millbank was unable to recover from a series of bad debts and collapsed into liquidation.
The assets of Millbank were thought to be less than £60,000 and unsecured creditors are unlikely to receive a dividend.
Mike Davis, managing director of DED, which has carried Star Micronics since 1983, said Millbank is well established and the timing "fits neatly with our current expansion of stores facilities".
www.iwr.co.uk /vnunet/news/2111819/ded-picks-remains-millbank   (213 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.