CITY WRECKAGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1941, Page 6

CITY WRECKAGE

PROGRESS OF CLEARANCE IN LONDON SCORES OF BUILDINGS DYNAMITED. ANCIENT HALLS DESTROYED. - 'Ey Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright > ' (Received This Day. 11.50 a.m.) LONDON January 2. The formidable task of clearing the wreckage ot the City has begun in earnest .and 1.500 officers and men nl the Royal Engineers have been drafted to assist the pioneers and civil defence squads. Scores of dangerous buildings have been dynamited ami die demolition personnel has already achieved remarkable results. The roads almost everywhere are clear but many side streets are still closed to the public some being completely blocked by tons of shattered masonry. The ancient city halls destroyed include those of the Barbers and the Guild of Parish Clerks. The hall of the Barbers' Company escaped the Great Fire of IGu- | and was one of the few remaining j works of Inigo Jones. The Worshipful i Company of Cordwainers, which for ! three centuries has held its New Year's j Day service at St. Anne’s and St. ■ Agnes’s, yesterday held a service amid i the ruins of die church.