HOUSING AND HISTORIC BUILDINGS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19731, 23 September 1929, Page 13

HOUSING AND HISTORIC BUILDINGS.

*0 THK EDITOB OI rill PBBSB !>ir, —Tho enclosed extract seems appropriate at the present time. It is from the "Quarterly Illustrated" ot the Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (Spring Number, 1929): "In the improvement schemes, whicj are the result of modern legislat on on housing. a great change is rapidly tak ing/place in the more ancient pans ol towns ail over the country. In many cases, open spaces are provided whenold buildings have stood for manv cen orations, and in many eases, these though ancient have no special architectural interest. It often happens however, in the °ase of an old town like Edinburgh, that what are surviving monuments of an earlier civilisation fall either to he altered or removed "The Edinburgh Corporation are taking. 'a very enlightened view of the matter, and careful r>botncrr»"bic records are now taken of all old buildings which are removed by them In no case ; s a bipldinw of arcbitectura' interest removed if it is at all po«R'bl° to avoid this, arid wh-°re tion# have to be carried ont to i<3f> +Jk. tbio is done sv« far T>o®sible without tr +bp exter nal appearance."— v "nr« etc.. CH*S. CHILTON. September 21st. 1929.