One very curious feature connected with old' Waterloo Bridge remains, While the bridge goes down. This "The Feathers." the only double public house in the world. It is run under one management and one cence, but is, nevertheless, two dis linet. public houses, the upper one opening on to the' bridge-level, the ower one on to Commercial Road. Lambeth, There is a spare floor be-Swen the two, used chiefly as a 'This house was built at the same' time as Rennie's bridge and, according to legend, the top house was in Lambeth borough, the bottom house in Southwark, the intervening floor in no borough at all, consequently a no man's land in which no arrest could be made.
the sort of eccentricity that could easily occur in old London, when Sir Robert Peel's scheme for a regular police force roused the wildes, protests, and gay sparks at night time amused themselves by turning watehmen's boxes upside down, with the watchmen inside.
By the way, it is calculated that the new bridge design should cost, £100.- 000 less than that first offered. This salutary. According to the LEC. Finance Committee's report published to-day, the Socialist Council, since they took office last March, have spent all" the old Council's savings and £735,000 beside—on what, it. would puzzle the average Londoner to say. That next year's rates will go up considerably, is certain.
London, Oct. 10 Major and Mrs. Ford and their son "Tubbs" Ford came to lea last Sunday. They return to China by the s. Ranpura at the end of next week. "Tubbs" lett Sherborne the end of last term. He goes out to Shanghai with his parents for a year and in October, 1935, goes up to Cambridge to Trinity Hall.
'A recent note appeared in the "Birmingham Post" of the annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Warwickshire, 1186 being present. "Among. many distinguished brethren pre~ ent," special mention 1s made of Wor. Bro. R. S. Ivy, Past District Grand Master "of Northern China. Dr. Ivy who lives at Wylde Green, tells me that he has been "most cordially received in this province." Masons in Shanghai willfully understand why.
The Chinese Minister returned from Geneva late last night. I call-him this morning and found him with his head scarcely emerging from among mounds of occu ulated "correspondence. "And lay is. properly a holiday," he said ruefully, "The Double Ten."
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