The recurring monogram above High Holborn Post Office. ESA Stands for the Educational Supply Association. ESAVIAN HOUSE was 171-181 High Holborn before the war. In the early 1950s, the firm moved out of London to the Pinnacles Industrial Estate in Harlow.
On another note, have you heard about “Internet search engines”? They’re all the rage these days.
The rear of that building backs onto a small office where I used to work on Stukeley Street 🙂
Per Jamie Barras who I follow on Flickr (he is usually good for this kind of thing):
*Esavian House (completed 1930s)*
*171 – 181 High Holborn WC1, Holborn, London. Former warehouse premises of the Educational Supply Association Ltd (ESA) furniture manufacturers. In 1917, ESA famously adapted wooden classroom partitions to make folding doors for aircraft hangars. They branched out from there to make sliding hangar doors too — all under the brandname “Esavian”.*
They’re ‘transforming’ this Crown post office into one of those UOE franchise retail shop/post office combos. Expect it to become pretty mediocre soon.
It’s the crest of the 1920’s Egg Steaming Academy. It was the first egg steaming academy in Europe. There’s also an
ESA in Helsinki, started in 1937
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The recurring monogram above High Holborn Post Office. ESA Stands for the Educational Supply Association. ESAVIAN HOUSE was 171-181 High Holborn before the war. In the early 1950s, the firm moved out of London to the Pinnacles Industrial Estate in Harlow.
On another note, have you heard about “Internet search engines”? They’re all the rage these days.
The rear of that building backs onto a small office where I used to work on Stukeley Street 🙂
Per Jamie Barras who I follow on Flickr (he is usually good for this kind of thing):
*Esavian House (completed 1930s)*
*171 – 181 High Holborn WC1, Holborn, London. Former warehouse premises of the Educational Supply Association Ltd (ESA) furniture manufacturers. In 1917, ESA famously adapted wooden classroom partitions to make folding doors for aircraft hangars. They branched out from there to make sliding hangar doors too — all under the brandname “Esavian”.*
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/ddtmmm/3417243879](https://www.flickr.com/photos/ddtmmm/3417243879)
They’re ‘transforming’ this Crown post office into one of those UOE franchise retail shop/post office combos. Expect it to become pretty mediocre soon.
It’s the crest of the 1920’s Egg Steaming Academy. It was the first egg steaming academy in Europe. There’s also an
ESA in Helsinki, started in 1937
Cement, probably
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