CRIES OF PROTEST
POWER STATION SITE LONDON, May 23. The Minister of Town and Country Planning. Mr. L. Silkin, announced in the House of Commons that the Gov ernment intended to proceed with the construction of a new power station at Bankside-on Thames, opposite St. Paul’s. Mr. Silkin discussed criticism of the plan to have a large industrial building so close to the cathedral. He said
there had been a great deal of hysterical talk, but it was geneiHlly accepted that the power station could be a decorative building. The House greeted the announce ment with cries of dissent and derision and interrupted his statement with shouts of “Shame.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 26 May 1947, Page 3
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109CRIES OF PROTEST Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 26 May 1947, Page 3
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