Congress House

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Congress House is the headquarters of the Trades Union Congress(TUC), a British organisation that represents most of the UK's trade unions.

In 1948 David du Roi Aberdeen won an architectural competition to design the new TUC headquarters building in Great Russell Street, London. Staff began to move into the offices in 1956 and the building was officially opened in 1958. The building is Grade II* listed.

The official opening of the TUC headquarters building, Congress House, on 27 March 1958 and the unveiling of the sculpture by Jacob Epstein, intended as a memorial to the dead trade unionists of 2 world wars, in the courtyard. On the plinth (l-r) are John Clements (British Actors Equity Association), Tom Yates (TUC Chairman) and Sir Vincent Tewson (TUC General Secretary). The State Trumpeters of the Lifeguards are sounding the fanfare 'Congress'.