LONDON AFTER WAR
IMPROVED, NOT NEW SUGGESTIONS BY ARCHITECT (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrig-ht) LONDON, March 12 Cheapside as a gay boulevard with wide concrete pavements where citizens could watch their Lord Mayor in appropriate state and surroundings pass from the Mansion House to the Guildhall is one picture of a vastly improved postwar London drawn by Mr W. H» Ansell, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. There should be a fine open piazza leading from Cheapside to the Guildhall in place of the present narrow way, he said. There should be a clearance of jostling neighbours to provide a close and worthy view of Wren's masterpiece, St. Paul’s. “ Terraced gardens will drop from the Cathedral down to the river, linking up with an extended Embankment so that a view of London’s earliest story, her river, will be obtained from the steps of St. Paul’s,” he added. Mr Ansell dissociated himself from those who would make a ” new ” London. “ I want a vastly improved London,” he said, “ not a London improved out of recognition.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21370, 14 March 1941, Page 5
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176LONDON AFTER WAR Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21370, 14 March 1941, Page 5
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