CHANGES OF CENTURY
FROM OLD LONDON TO NEW AIR AGE.
Nearly a century ago the son of a Norfolk farmer camo to London and staffed a greengrocer's business. With his pony and cart he delivered cab bagcs and potatoes io customers in and near Ecclcston Square, Victoria. As a si’de line he used his pony and cart as a removal van. From that modest beginning has grown the organisation controlled today by Mr A. W. dishop—grandson of that Norfolk farmet —who has just had the task of moving Imperial Airways into their new headquarters. Mr Bishop, who owns one of the largest fleets of horse and motor vehicles in London, was born 58 year:; ago near where the new air staticr stands, and can remember when, hi this neighbourhood, there was a canal which ran from the Thames to the site of the present Grosvenor Hotel. In those days Buckingham Palace Road was a row of warehouses and wharves, from which goods were shipped by river barge to the London docks.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1939, Page 9
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171CHANGES OF CENTURY Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1939, Page 9
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