NO. 10 DOWNING STREET.
£13,000 FOR ALTERATIONS. Mrs Neville Chamberlain is likely to make No. 10 Downing Street the Prime Minister’s home and not only his office. This interpretation is placed on the supplementary Civil Estimates, in which it is revealed that £13,000 is to be expended generally of improving No. 10. Since Sir Robert Walpole moved in in 1735 the tenants of the famous building have added various rooms, with the result that there are 69 behind its drab facade. The domestic problem which has harassed every Prime Minister’s wife will be solved soon, when the alterations have been finished. - - The offices and Cabinet rooms will ho on the ground floor. On the first floor will be the private residence; on the second, where there are now offices, will 'be guest rooms. At present the offices are on the ground and second floors, and the residence is sandwiched in on the first floor.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 210, 5 August 1937, Page 9
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154NO. 10 DOWNING STREET. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 210, 5 August 1937, Page 9
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