BUILDING SITE SPECTATORS
Recorded Commentary For Londoners I From the Lonaon Correspondent of “The Press”)
LONDON, August 18.
Londoners, who have always taken great delight in watching men at work on the roads and on building sites, are queueing to see what is happening on a large site on Ludgate Hill, just west of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
The key to this unusually keen interest is the recorded telephone commentary that can be heard from the platform overlooking the site from the street. There are five red telephones on the platform and by lifting a receiver the spectator can listen to a two-minute history of the site and an outline of the plans to put up a 200.000 sq.ft, office block with shops and parking garage.
The wife of the chairman of the building contractors recorded the informative commentary which includes references to the Romans, the old coaching inn that stood there from the fifteenth century, and Pocahontas who once slept there.
Spectators’ lookouts which appear on most building sites these days are apparently not without their value: it is said that the pace of the work greatly influenced by the public overseers.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28987, 31 August 1959, Page 15
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