Gibraltar House

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox Diplomatic Mission |name = Gibraltar House |location = Aldwych, London |image = KAKlon (379).jpg |caption = Gibraltar House flying the Gibraltar Flag (2009). |address = 150 Strand, London, WC2R 1JA |coordinates ={{Coord|51|30|41.846|N|0|7|4.737|W|region:GB_scale:2000|}} }}

The '''Representative of Gibraltar''' in Aldwych, London is the diplomatic mission of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar in the United Kingdom, also referred to as '''Gibraltar House'''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263519/LDL_December_2013.pdf |title=The London Diplomatic List |date=14 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211155353/https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263519/LDL_December_2013.pdf |archive-date=11 December 2013 }}</ref> Located on the Strand, it functions as an informal consulate,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pjmsurveyors.com/index.php?action=page_display&PageID=34|title=Gibraltar House|publisher=Pater Johnson Merriman|access-date=27 April 2013}}</ref> tourist information centre about Gibraltar and assists Gibraltarian patients sent by the Gibraltar Health Authority for medical treatment in the United Kingdom.<ref name="Insight">{{cite web|url=http://friendsofgibraltar.org.uk/docs/1279467807RockTalk_April09.pdf|title=Albert Poggio, Gibraltar's Man in London|publisher=Rock Talk|date=April 2009|access-date=27 April 2013|archive-date=15 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215231646/http://friendsofgibraltar.org.uk/docs/1279467807RockTalk_April09.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==History== The first Gibraltar House, a small tourist information office, was opened in Northumberland Avenue, London, in the early 1970s. The first Director was Helen Gordon. A subsequent Gibraltar Tourist Office was opened in Trafalgar Square, under the command of John Joe Gomez. Soon after, it opened a much larger office at 179 Strand, directed by Jose Rosado and later by Richard Garcia. In 1989, Albert Poggio took over as Director, a position which he has held to this date (he was briefly replaced by Peter Canessa between 2011 and 2012). In 2009, the Gibraltar House moved to its current location at 150 Strand.<ref name="Insight"/>

Although Albert Poggio had not become Director of the House until 1989, he had been suggesting the creation of a "social centre" in London since 1969, due to the work that he developed as Chairman of the Gibraltar Group, which congregated Gibraltarian expatriates in London.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rockjottings.com/docs/1217609075apoggio1.pdf|title=Gib's man in London|publisher=The Gibraltar Chronicle|date=25 April 1990|access-date=27 April 2013}}</ref>

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== External links == * {{cite web|url=http://www.gibraltar.gov.uk/london/london.php|title=Gibraltar London – Official site|publisher=Government of Gibraltar|access-date=27 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507100012/http://www.gibraltar.gov.uk/london/london.php|archive-date=7 May 2013|url-status=dead}} * {{cite web|url=http://www.gibraltar.gov.uk/london/housepdf/BROCHURE_and_LEAFS_LR.PDF|title=Gibraltar House – Business Suites|publisher=Government of Gibraltar|access-date=27 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216020937/http://www.gibraltar.gov.uk/london/housepdf/BROCHURE_and_LEAFS_LR.PDF|archive-date=16 December 2013|url-status=dead}} * {{cite web|url=http://www.europasur.es/article/ocio/16106/una/oficina/une/penon/y/londres.html|title=Una oficina une el Peñón y Londres|language=es|publisher=europasur.es|date=22 December 2007|access-date=27 April 2013}}

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