The Archive · 1938

Demolition

The next stage is plainly visible, for the premises on the west side of Mill Street, between Saville Row and Conduit Street, are deserted, and there are boards across the windows of the ground-floor shops. The processes of demolition' and reconstruction on the site of Savile Place have given a bright new frontage to Boyle Street on its north side, and the promise of something similar on the south side is nearing fulfilment. Here is one of those gigantic holes in the ground where the men at work seem to an inquisitive passer-by to belong to a world apart. Small and faded notices in cardboard on the boardings beside the pavement tell of businesses that have left Savile Row to find new quarters else-

The new building on the north side of Boyle Street, while it has brought the Forestry Commission into an extended Savile Row. has also brought into Savile Row one more firm of tailors, formerly housed in Conduit Street. In the older part of Savile Row time marches on with a fair show of dignity and no indecent haste. There is a window at which one is still reminded that the firm inside were tailors "by appointment to H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh," and there. are doors outside which extinguishers are still available in case one should happen to arrive with linkman and lights ing the people to stand firm for peace "because who wants war?" She never tried to throw leaflets in people's faces.

She was fined 50 shillings and the charges against Warburton were dismissed.

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