IMPROVED LONDON.
ARCHITECT’S VISION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 12. Cheapside as a gay boulevard with wide concrete pavements where citizens could watch their Lord Mayor in appropriate state and surroundings pass from the Mansion House to the Guildhall—this is one picture of a vastly-improved post-war London drawn by Mr W. H. Ansell, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. There should be a fine open piazza leading from Cheapside to the Guildhall in place of the present narrow way, and round Stepney a clearance free from its jostling neighbours to provide a close and worthy view of St. Paul’s. “Terraced gardens will drop from the cathedral down to the river, linking up with an extended Embankment so that a view of London’s river will be obtained from the transeptal steps of St. Paul’s. Mr Ansell dissociated himself from those who would make a “new” London. “I want a vastly-improved London —but not one improved out of recognition,” he said.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 89, 14 March 1941, Page 5
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161IMPROVED LONDON. Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 89, 14 March 1941, Page 5
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