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A custom house or customs house was traditionally a building housing the offices for a jurisdictional government whose officials oversaw the functions associated with importing and exporting goods int
The Customs House in Brisbane, Australia
The Old Customs House in Tampere, Finland
The Custom House, Saint Petersburg
The Custom-house upon the Back of Bristoll (1728)
Custom House, City of London
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The Custom House, on the north bank of the Thames in the City of London, is a building which was formerly used for the collection of customs duties. A custom house has been present in the area since t
Custom house
…duties on overseas trade. In the United Kingdom, since 1386, the phrase "custom house" has been in use over the term "customs house". This was after the City of London's Custom House was erected at Wool Wharf in Tower Ward, to house just the officials overseeing the Great Custom on Wool and Woolfells. The singular form was used even…
City of London Custom House
The Custom House as designed by Thomas Ripley
The Long Room in Ripley's Custom House c.1808
Laing's Custom House, completed in 1817, before the collapse and rebuilding of the central section in 1820