PETTICOAT LANE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20706, 2 May 1929, Page 11

PETTICOAT LANE.

CHANGING LONDON. FAMOUS MARKET MAY DISAPPEAR. (FnOil OtJU OWJS CORBESPONDENT.J LONDON, March 19. New Zealanders who liave been in Loni don and made a visit on a Sunday morning to the famous Petticoat Lane market will be interested to learn that it may disappear in the changes that are taking place in the congested area between Houndsditeh and Middlesex street, which is the real name of the “ Lane.” Here the City Comporation have put up new blocks of flats to which the overcrowded inhabitants arc flocking. An area of about three acres in extent is now cleared and awaiting plans for rebuilding. It is probable that part of this site will be occupied by a new cold storage building for the Port of London Authority, and the rest may become an open space for the benefit of the inhabitants of the now flats in Bearsted House and Dutton House, which now flank the'new Xew street. Tae new flats have set all Petticoat Lane agog. They are clean and bright, with four rooms, a kitchen, scullery, cupboards, electric light, gas fires, and all for 27s Od a week. The shops below have given an entirely new tone to the “Lane,” and oldestablished stallholders wonder what will become of the Sunday market at which many of them take hundreds of pounds;