WAR MEMORIAL
A VAST CONCEPTION. 1 j I TRANSFORMING SLUM ABE AS. j PALATIAL STRUCTURES. *■ (Received 10.30 a.m.) ? LONDON, April 18. ) Sir Gilbert Parker presided at a. : meeting of the Empire War Memorial ■ League, which' proposes a memorial including the clearance of several hundred acres of the worst slum areas in Westminster and transformation of the area into a place of noble road* and palatial buildings, including aa • Empire Avenue 120 feet wide, extending from Victoria Railway Station to Lambeth Bridge. The proposed buildings include tut Imperial Art Gallery, a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, buildings for the University of London and a Memorial Shrine with 69 chiapels, which alono will cost £1,500,000.—A.-aiid N.Z. . ■
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Northern Advocate, 19 April 1923, Page 5
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112WAR MEMORIAL Northern Advocate, 19 April 1923, Page 5
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