"LOST ITS BEAUTY"
MODERN ENGLAND
GRIMY AND OVERCROWDED
(By Telegraph—Press Assocration.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
"England is becoming so built over that there is no breathing space left," said Mr. A. T. Bothamley, former Clerk of Parliaments, and present Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, who returned by the Awatea. He regretted the disappearance of the beautiful old manor houses near London, which had been either pulled down or surrounded by modern villas.
"Picturesque old villages are now hard to find." he said. "One enters them through rows of modern bungalows. Even the Lake District has been invaded by the jerry-builder, and away down Land's End there is a big hotel in flamboyant style, and hundreds of summer villas." One of Mr. Bothamley's most pleasant experiences was a visit to Temple Grove School, at which he was a pupil in 1854. As the oldest living boy of the school he received a most enthusiastic welcome. "Although I was born in England, I am glad to return to New Zealand," he said. "England is so grimy, so overcrowded, and so overbuilt that it has lost all its beauty."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 119, 16 November 1936, Page 10
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