BRITAIN'S HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT WITH THE LID OFF: THE NATION'S LEGISLATIVE WORKSHOP. Tlii- draw-in" "ive* a very clear impression of the character of the vast, pile wherein British legislators carry on their work. The old palace, long a Royal residence and afterwards the meeting-pl vce of the Lords and Commons, underwent inanv alteraMons in the course of centuries, and in 1334 it was destroyed by fire—all save Westminster Hall, St. Stephen's crypt and part of the cloisters. From designs by Sir Charles Barry, the new I'alace, iin the Gotl'ic fat le of "architecture and embracing the remnants of the old, was erected.on the same site in 1840-50 at a cost oi about £5,000,000. It covers an area-of eight acres, and contains 1100 apartments of one kind or another, eleven courtyards, a humired staircases and two miles of passages. •—London Graphic.'

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19215, 2 January 1926, Page 3 (Supplement)

BRITAIN'S HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT WITH THE LID OFF: THE NATION'S LEGISLATIVE WORKSHOP. Tlii- draw-in" "ive* a very clear impression of the character of the vast, pile wherein British legislators carry on their work. The old palace, long a Royal residence and afterwards the meeting-pl vce of the Lords and Commons, underwent inanv alteraMons in the course of centuries, and in 1334 it was destroyed by fire—all save Westminster Hall, St. Stephen's crypt and part of the cloisters. From designs by Sir Charles Barry, the new I'alace, iin the Gotl'ic fat le of "architecture and embracing the remnants of the old, was erected.on the same site in 1840-50 at a cost oi about £5,000,000. It covers an area-of eight acres, and contains 1100 apartments of one kind or another, eleven courtyards, a humired staircases and two miles of passages. •—London Graphic.'