SILK HAT AND PICKAXE.
DEMOLITION CEREMONY. As if performing some sad ceremonial rite demanded by the march of progress, a young man, with spats, frock coat, and silk hat, stood wielding a pick on the parapet of a house in Berkeley Square, London recently. He knocked out the first brick in the demolition of 20 of the most historic houses in London. The houses stand in Berkeley Square and in Bruton Street. It was from No 17. Bruton Street that Queen Elizabeth set off to marry tile then Duke of York. It was in tin's house that Princess Elizabeth was born. Pitt lived in Berkeley Square. and Sheridan, the dramatist, lived ill Bruton Street.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 219, 16 August 1937, Page 11
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114SILK HAT AND PICKAXE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 219, 16 August 1937, Page 11
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