page_title: Milford Lane
section_title: Character and current buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Milford Lane / Character and current buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: The Strand / Milford Lane, WC2 Shows the location of 1132653.
context_page_description: Milford Lane is a narrow street in the City of Westminster that runs from Strand in the north to a brief walkway section leading to Temple Place in the south. It is joined by Little Essex Street and Essex Street on its eastern side. Maltravers Street once joined the lane to Arundel Street, but ceased to exist when building work at 190 Strand was completed.
context_section_description: Milford Lane is mostly lined with the rears of office buildings that front other streets — Essex Street and Arundel Street. The lane is narrow with vehicular access only to the northern part.
  The Temple Bar public house, behind a narrow bank building on the north-east corner, states that it was established in 1839.
  The Cheshire Cheese larger public house, midway, on the corner with Little Essex Street, stands where there has been a tavern since the 16th century. It was rebuilt in 1928 to a design by Nowell Parr for the Style & Winch Brewery and is grade II listed building.
  At the south end of the lane, Two Temple Place was built in 1895. Around the same time, Bodley and Garner's London School Board Building was erected in Temple Place. It was replaced by Electra House, the headquarters of Cable & Wireless, in 1929. Its eastern side was hit by a V-1 flying bomb on 24 July 1944 during the Second World War, demolishing part of it, blocking the lane and trapping people in rubble at 28 Essex Street. Three people died, 17 were injured. The building was repaired but demolished in 1999 and replaced by Globe House, now the headquarters of British American Tobacco.
  A large mixed-use development on western side of the street is known as 190 Strand, the construction of which resulted in the demolition of the modern Maltravers Street, and the enhancement of Tweezer's Alley.
  The K2 telephone kiosk at the southern end of the lane at the junction with Temple Place is grade II listed with Historic England.  The street veers to the east before a short walkway leading to Queen Elizabeth Buildings barristers' chambers on the top of the bank of the Thames, east and west of which are the lawns of Temple Gardens and trees and flowers of Victoria Embankment Gardens.
caption: Milford Lane north end seen from Strand
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