 It was severely damaged in the Second World War, before being demolished in 1957 and replaced by an office building called Shakespeare House.A large Central Post Office, designed by Jasper Wager, was built in 1898, and extended with a sorting office designed by John Rutherford in around 1913 (although the original buildings were replaced by a modern structure designed by an unknown architect at the Ministry of Works in 1961).The street is known in popular culture thanks to the BAFTA Award-winning 1951 Ealing comedy "The Lavender Hill Mob".