NOTICE TO QUIT

Evening Star, Issue 21722, 17 May 1934, Page 11

NOTICE TO QUIT

HISTORIC CLIFFORD'S IKK FAMOUS LONDON CORNER. Clifford’s Inn, one oE London’s quaintest, most historic, and most peaceful cornel's, may shortly he demolished. Registered let« ters arrived at all the flats and offices thei® recently, giving three months’ notice to all tenants. ■■ The letter explained that the owners or Clifford’s Inn—the Office of Works—are proposin? to “ redevelop the property, and’ jb believed that modern offices and shop* may take the place of the 400-yoar-old houses. ■- , The inn lies off Fleet street and Fetter lane. Its use by students of law dales back to 1344. The present buildings are mostly rare examples of sixteenth-century architecture. They look down on a quaint, cobbled courtyard. The arrival of the letters caused coaster, nation All flats and offices have been oi» three months’ tenancies for the last twenty years, but nobody bad an idea that the inn might be swept away. . Mr A. E. Cox, porter of the inn, saidi “Some of the tenants have been hero lop fifty and sixty years. Others have spent a, good deal in improving their flats. vvnea the letters arrived there was quite an up. roar One or two of the tenants are away for the week-end, and do not yet know that they will have to leave their home* next June.” The judges, who, under Sir Matthew Hale, settled the boundary dispute? arising after tho great fire of London, sat for the purpose in Cliffords Inn Hall^ Many famous men have lived in the mu, including Samuel Butler and George Dyer, the friend of Lamb.