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In the mid-1960s the newly-merged company established its administrative centre in a large office block in [[Horsham]]<ref>{{cite web|first1=A P|last1= Baggs|first2=C R J |last2=Currie|first3=C R |last3=Elrington|first4= S M |last4=Keeling |first5= A M |last5=Rowland|title='Horsham: General history of the town', in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 2, Bramber Rape (North-Western Part) Including Horsham|location=London|year=1986|pages=131–156|publisher=British History Online|url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt2/pp131-156 |accessdate= 19 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/media/2103/horsham_eus_report_and_maps.pdf|title=Horsham: Historic Character Assessment Report |page=19|publisher=Sussex Extensive Urban Survey |date= 1 October 2004 |accessdate=19 April 2020}}</ref> and its head office at 1 Bartholomew Lane in London.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=44336|page=6378|date=6 June 1967}}</ref>
Sun Alliance went on to acquire London Assurance in 1965 (becoming Sun Alliance & London)<ref name=trebilcock>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AO-QDCl-6sAC&pg=PA1021|title=Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British Insurance: Volume 2, The Era of the Insurance Giants 1870–1984|first=Clive|last=Trebilcock|page=1021|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1999|isbn=978-0521254151}}</ref> and [[Phoenix Fire Office|Phoenix Assurance]] in 1984.<ref name=trebilcock/>
After changing its name to Sun Alliance Group in 1989, the company consolidated its operations at a new development, known as St Mark's Court, in Horsham in 1990,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publicsculpturesofsussex.co.uk/object?id=168|title=Bridges Memorial Spire|publisher=Public Sculptures of Sussex|accessdate=19 April 2020}}</ref> while retaining its head office in London.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9HrrCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA273|title=Major Companies of Europe 1991/92: Volume 2 Major Companies of the United Kingdom|volume=2|first= J. |last=Forsyth|publisher=Springer Netherlands|year=1991|isbn=978-94-011-3018-9}}</ref>
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