Horse Guards Avenue
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Horse Guards Avenue is a road in the City of Westminster, London, linking the major thoroughfares of Whitehall and Victoria Embankment, to the east of the Horse Guards building and parade area. The en
Horse Guards Avenue from Whitehall
Charles Wheeler's architectural sculptures of Earth and Water
Downing Street mortar attack
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The Provisional Irish Republican Army launched three homemade mortar shells at 10 Downing Street, London, the headquarters of the British government, on 7 February 1991. The goal was to assassinate Pr
Horse Guards Avenue
…building itself is flanked by two monumental statues, Earth and Water, by Charles Wheeler. Horse Guards Avenue was the launch site of the IRA's 1991 Downing Street mortar attack. A transit van was parked on the Avenue near the corner with Whitehall, and the mortar launch occurred minutes later. The incident led to a ban on…
Mountbatten Green, where two of the shells landed. In the background is the Foreign Office and to the left is the back of 12 Downing Street.
Downing Street in 1996
The security gates installed in 1989 as a result of the IRA's bombing campaign in England