Albion House
Coordinates: 53 ° 24 ′ 16.5 " N , 2 ° 59 ′ 32.4" W.
The Albion House is a building in the James Street in Liverpool . It was built between 1896 and 1898 for Ismay, Imrie and Company , a subsidiary of the White Star Line . The building was designed by the architects Richard Norman Shaw and James Francis Doyle . The facade is made of white Portland stone and red bricks. When news of the sinking of the Titanic reached the office in 1912 , employees were afraid to leave the building and read the names of the dead from the balcony. During the Second World War has been gable damaged and rebuilt in the late 1940s.
The name Albion is an old term for England. It is jokingly called streaky bacon building by the local population because of its appearance as it looks like streaky bacon .
