- published: 30 Jul 2012
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2 Marsham Street London has been the headquarters of the Home Office, a department of the British Government, since March 2005. Before this date the Home Office was located at 50 Queen Anne's Gate.
The site was previously occupied by the Departments of Environment and Transport. The headquarters offices of both departments were located in Marsham Towers - three 20-floor concrete towers (North, Centre and South) joined together by 'podium' floors to level 3. The towers won an architectural award and boasted express lifts, marble entrances and escalators to the 3rd floor - very modern government offices for the early 1970s. Construction had started in the early 1960s but was finally completed in 1971 and became the office of the new Department of Environment created in October 1970 (DOE was created out of a merger between the Ministry for Housing and Local Government and the Ministry of Transport).
The towers were considered by some to be a blot on London's landscape and were subsequently nicknamed "the three ugly sisters" and "the toast rack". Michael Heseltine, when the Secretary of State for the Environment in the late 1970s/early 1980s, allegedly said that the building offered the best view of London - because you couldn't see the towers from his north-facing 16th floor North tower office.
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