SILK HAT AND PICK.
> DEMOLITION CEREMONY. LONDON, July 15. As if;> performing some sad ceremonial rite demanded by the march of progress, a young man, with spats, frock coat, and silk hat, stood wielding a pick on the parapet of a house in Berkeley Square. He knocked out the: first brick in the demolition of 20 of the most historic houses in London. The houses stand in Berkeley. Square and in Bruton Street. It was from No. 17 Bruton Street that Queen Elizabeth set off to marry the then Duke of York. It was in this hbuse that Princess Elizabeth was born. Pitt lived in Berkeley Square, and Sheridan, the dramatist, lived in Bruton Street.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 249, 2 August 1937, Page 10
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115SILK HAT AND PICK. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 249, 2 August 1937, Page 10
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