The housebreakers have been at work demolishing Grosvenor House, that was once Gloucester House, and the home of that Duke of Gloucester who was a younger brother of King George III.; and so passes away the home of the “ Grosvenor Gallery,” which was commenced by the first Earl Grosvenor and was famous long before the name was appropriated by a picture gallery in Bond street. When one sees these old mansions falling before the pickaxe or pneumatic drill o r modern progress he cannot help wondering, says a Ixindon paper, what their architects and builders would have said if they had been able to see a vision of the present time, when a great house is demolished once it ceases to be a business proposition, as lightheartedly as if it were a bicycle shed. Some of those builders of Victorian and pre-Victorian times built with a wonderful solidity.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 221, 26 January 1928, Page 1
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