SAID ST. PAUL’S WAS FALLING DOWN
The man who startled London five years ago by the announcement that St. Paul’s Cathedral was falling down died recently in Staines Hospital. He was Mr. John Todd, the City of London surveyor under the ; London Building Act. Mr. Todd declared that to make St. Paul’s safe would cost £2,000,090 and take twelve years: He served a “dangerous structure” notice on the Dean and Chapter, advising that the
dome should be lifted on temporary pillars, as its eight piers were rotting. The Chapter called in other experts, who suggested repairing the piers, and the notice was suspended on an undertaking that structural repairs would be done. Mr. Todd said that the remedy was not adequate, and consequently resigned his position as dangerous structure surveyor. Mr. Todd was a native of Hull, aged 63.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 62, 6 December 1930, Page 27
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