"When I was a boy," said Mr. George Bernard Shaw, speaking on behalf of the [Tewkesbury Abbey Tower appeal fund at Tewkesbury, Glos., "I could get into beautiful buildings for sixpence. Now I have tea with the vicar and give him a banker's order." Mr. Shaw said that two of the most beautiful towers in the world were the old Campanile in Venice and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. "If modern scientific architects were let loose on Pisa they would look at it and ask for half a million pounds to stop it leaning. 'J'he Campanile at Venice, which was plumb straight, fell down, and the Leaning Tower still stands. That, however, does not mean that towers should •be built sideways jf they, are to last." 1
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 223, 20 September 1935, Page 14
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