PALACES DEMOLISHED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19508, 11 December 1926, Page 11

PALACES DEMOLISHED.

THE PAVILIONS AT WEMBLEY. NEW USE FOR THE MATERIAL. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Dec. 9. Ichabod—the glory has departed from Wembley. But one year has sufficed to turn the ornate pavilions of the Empire Exhibition into factories, laundries or garages in all parts of the country. Mr. A. J. Elvin, the contractor for the demolition,. says that the concrete walls of the famous Palace of Beauty now form the foundation of one of the new arterial roads out of London. The Ceylon pavilion is now a coachbuilding factory, in London, that of Nigeria is a garage at Preston. The Palestine pavilion is reduced to a laundry at Glasgow. Others have been re-erected abroad. Mr. Elvin has now contracted to demolish the pavilions of the respective Dominions, from which he expects to recover 15,000 tons of steel. Tho Australian and Canadian pavilions alone contain 2500 tons of timber each, which will provide material enough to construct several factories. Only the solidly-built structures, including the Palace of Engineering, the Palace of Arts, the Civic Hall, the Conference Hall,, the Theatre, and the Stadium will be preserved.