FAMOUS LONDON STREET
Olio of the best-known streets in London —Park Lane—lias passed through some wonderful changes. It lias 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' arid later on to Dover. The name Tyburn was derived from one of the streams which flowed from the northern heights to the Thames. Fashion advances from east to west. The city was one time its centre, then . Solio, 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 street is changing rapidly. The fountain on the left of Park Lane was built in honour of .Shakespeare, Milton and Chaucer. It was designed by Thornycroft in 1875.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)
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