HE EXPECTED NAPOLEON
LONDON BUILDER’S BAD GUESS. ■The sale of the Royal Military Canal, from Hythe to Cliff End, Sussex, constructed as a defence against Napoleon’s threatened invasion of England, reminds an historian friend of “ Peterborough ” of the London Daily Telegraph that London has a curious memento of the emperor s unfulfilled dream. An enterprising builder, who seems to have had no doubt of the success of Napoleon’s plans, went so far as to build a large square of smallish houses, likely to suit the taste and pockets of the emperor’s poorly-paid junior officers, who were sure, he anticipated, to be on the look-out foi such accommodation when the French army occupied London. iHis scheme afterwards provided homes for many notable men, including Coleridge and Leigh. Hunt. His “French colony” is now Edwardes Square, Kensington.
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Waipa Post, Volume 51, Issue 3694, 6 December 1935, Page 4
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