HMSO Sovereign House. Norwich. Permission visit. Dec 12

[Black Shuck]

It's been derelict for 16 years? I know it's seen better days but I'm surprised its not worse.

It was in a fairly good state believe you me. Even the spiral staircase was in good nick!. 1960's concrete for you I guess!

 

[John_D]

Will have to direct my brother to this post, he worked in HMSO at Sovereign House from the mid 1970's and later at St Crispins, till his retirement, as HMSO Controller, in the 1990's

 

[Black Shuck]

Will have to direct my brother to this post, he worked in HMSO at Sovereign House from the mid 1970's and later at St Crispins, till his retirement, as HMSO Controller, in the 1990's

Wow, it's always good to hear from someone who has a relative who worked at a site that I've explored. Thanks John.

 

[Ramsgatonian]

Love the design of this place, certainly very different!

 

[Black Shuck]

Love the design of this place, certainly very different!

It's certainly different that's for sure!, It really is mahoosive on the inside!

 

[MrDan]

Will have to direct my brother to this post, he worked in HMSO at Sovereign House from the mid 1970's and later at St Crispins, till his retirement, as HMSO Controller, in the 1990's

Ask him why it has curved corridors when it's a square building

 

[John_D]

Ask him why it has curved corridors when it's a square building

Suggest you put that question to the architects responsible
quote:- ' Sovereign House Glass and concrete office block, built in 1968 to a design by Norwich-based architects Alan Cooke & Partners, which towers over Anglia Square. Until the mid-1990s it housed offices of Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO)'

Out of interest I wonder if it has, like other 'Sovereign Houses' (Hertford for one) built in the 1960's, some sort of bunker in the basement? :GEEK: Perhaps that is something my brother might know.

 

[Black Shuck]

Suggest you put that question to the architects responsible
quote:- ' Sovereign House Glass and concrete office block, built in 1968 to a design by Norwich-based architects Alan Cooke & Partners, which towers over Anglia Square. Until the mid-1990s it housed offices of Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO)'

Out of interest I wonder if it has, like other 'Sovereign Houses' (Hertford for one) built in the 1960's, some sort of bunker in the basement? :GEEK: Perhaps that is something my brother might know.

Your brother is?