A Victorian statesman, surveying the House of Commons after a famous General Election, observed that there were strange faces in famil places and familiar faces in strange places. Something of the same sense of change is felt as, passing along Savile Row today, one discovers that this street, traditionally associated with the tailor, now gives shelter to the Forestry Commission. This newcomer of Savile Row has not only set up its headquarter: there, but has also opened a second office in a separate building among the tailors.
This appearance of a statutory body in Savile Row is but one sign of changing times there. The main source of change in and around Savile Row is a scheme, now partly accomplished, for connecting Vigo Street with Maddox Street thus, making a through road from Regent Street, at its Piccadilly end, to Bond Street. It is a plan which is being carried out. gradually, and seems now to have reached a stage where the road makers are resting from their labours. Already they have swept Savile Place—a quiet back water of small shops—from the map of London, and the new widened road in its place has been added to Savile Row.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.