A FAMOUS LONDON STREET.
One of the best-known streets in London—Park Lane—hae paesed through some wonderful changes. It hae been a muddy track, then a fashionable residential street, now it is an hotel and flat centre.
The , original name was Tyburn Lane, and it was a continuation of Watling Street, the Roman road on its way to the marshes of Westminster and later on to Dover. The name Tyburn was derived from one of the streams which flowed from the northern heights to the Thamee. Fashion advances from cast to west. The- city was one time its centre, then Soho, Bloomsbury, and westwards until it was brought up by the barrier of Hyde Park. There it divided north and south. Now the character of the etreet is changing rapidly. The' fountain on the left of Park Lane was built in honour of Shakespeare, Milton and Chaucer. It was designed by Tliornycroft in 1575.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 213, 9 September 1933, Page 8 (Supplement)
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153A FAMOUS LONDON STREET. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 213, 9 September 1933, Page 8 (Supplement)
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