POPPIES BLOOM IN GUTTER LANE
(Snocial Curresnondent.)
Received Ertduv, 7 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 2. Poppios are blopming ainong tlie rubble of the ruins in Gntter Lane, neai Newgate, in tlie heart of tlie City ot Imndon. Tliey have joined tlie 120 variel.ies of wild flowers wliicli bloom among London 's bombed-out buildings. With 111 a f'ew elmina of Moorgate Bt.reei station, a 15 feet high willow tree is I growing 011 a bombed site in Milton Blreet, and in many places among the wilderness of debris which lies between St. Baul's and Old Gtrect, small shrubs and trees'are sprouting among bracken and flowers. In a darnaged buiiding j near Coswell Btreet, hard liy the city '.s busiest niercantile thoroughfares, a small tree is growing through a erack in ihe floor of an abandoned basement ottiee. Within a few yards of Fleet Street bracken and flowers are growing among the ruins of Gray's Inn. Tlie shell of one of the city's oldest churches St. Swithins, is used every day as a pic.nie lunclieon ground by city workers who eat their middav mea! among wild flowers and shrubs which liave grown up inside the shattered walls. 1.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 August 1946, Page 5
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