DENTISTS OF ST. PAUL’S
London has a new "sight", to offer to those holiday-makers who visit it this spring. This is the architectural dentists at -work in St. Paul’s. So fascinating does the grouting now in progress in Hie cathedral prove that many people who enter the historic pile in order to look round the tombs and statues never get any farther than the place where the workmen are busy. The head greater surveys a portion of the pillars, and a dentist looknt a well-worn molar, and decides to cut a chunk out here and another there. it happens that the bases of the pillars in the crypt are studded with deep holes all ready to be "filled.” Sometimes tho great driller bores it> wav into the masonry to. a depth of twenty feet, and then the liquid cement, made on the promises, is pumped in by means of compressed air. Like the dentist, the groutcr does not believe in pulling out or pulling down whilo there is a change of "stopping.” The noise of the drills i? so great that the official guides have taken, to using megaphones to make thdr voices heard.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12516, 4 August 1926, Page 11
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194DENTISTS OF ST. PAUL’S New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12516, 4 August 1926, Page 11
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