The Archive · 1927

Rivalled in the Provinces

From Ocn Own Comesroxvext London, Dee. 10

London is in transformation. The Visitors of yesteryear will not know iv' when they return, The externals change bet after all they are the least important, It is the Life which alters, There ig much will strike luggage on the trains—such as is done sbroad—but hitherto without result, 'Th stations are all changing. They are now becoming arendes. Kiosks and shops uboun'. Moveable advertisements are everywhere visible The porter's truck will soon join the hansom cab and the fourwheelex. Luggage is transported motor—the little wotortruck, Which the porter rides steering, palls halt a dozen trucks, more The bookstalls are almost book-thobs with more than an American lavour, The newspaper poster decaying in Importance, Quite quently the bookstall will devote its Poster space to commercial adver-fisements.

The Railway poster un! the walls and vacant spaces. is work of art, All the best. artist Some of All th termini have Underground ce ions with booking offices. whi replete with automatic machines: usually for distributing the tickets—human assistance is reduced to a minimum,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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