SATELLITE TOWNS.
A CIRCLE ROUND LONDON, A vision of a great circle of satellite towns round London, linked up with the central city by underground routes, was given by tlie Home Secretary (Sir William Joynson-Hicks) when speaking at the annual meeting of the London Council of Social Service at the Mansion House. Manufacturing industries, he said, were gradually moving from North to South, and around London there was growing up a network of new businesses, new factories, and concerns unthought-of 20 years ago. “The whole development of the electrical industry is laid in the South,” he said, “and in the next ten years you are going to he faced with enormous aggregations of manufacturers all round London. You will have to find accommodation for those engaged on that work. He thought he could see the dim beginnings of a great series of underground routes from garden cities and satellite towns. 1
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 82, 17 January 1928, Page 7
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