SCRAP IRON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1940, Page 9

SCRAP IRON

SOUGHT IN GREAT BRITAIN. TONS FROM THE PARKS. Bandstands and iron hurdles, in addition to railings, in many London County Council parks and open spaces are to be scrapped to add to the nation's supply of war material. The moving spirit behind the decisions is the chairman of the Parks Committee. Mrs Hugh Dalton, wife of the new Minister of Economic Warfare. Kennington Triangle, in Lambeth, is to have its railings removed, and the high railings round Stangate Triangle-, near the County Hall, will go as soon as the newly-sown grass they protect has started to grow. The old bandstand in Victoria Park, Hackney, is to be scrapped, as well as more than 1000 hurdles and 100 yards of shin rails. The bandstand was built in 1854. Nearly a mile of the high and heavy boundary railings of Hackney Downs, along Queensdown Road and Downs Road, is to go. They are expected to yield about 100 tons.

Another bandstand to be demolished is the one at the foot of Arundel Street, in Temple Gardens. It has not been played in for years. Several hundred hurdles are to be scrapped at Millfields, Clapton. It has been suggested that a valuable source of iron for munitions exists in the standards dotted all over London at the entrances of alleys and passages to prevent the ingress of vehicles. Numbers of these are old cannon set mouth upward, generally with a cannon ball on top. An official of the Iron and Steel Control said that, while some might still be necessary for traffic control, many of them could probably be spared. ‘They would provide particularly good material.