'A dingy but monumental relic of the hectic days of the London eight clubs is shortly to be demolished and its name effaced from the street. is Vine Street police station which is probably as universally known as Old Bailey for its particular part played {in the police history of the metro-oh station has been judged out-of-date and inadequate to meet the needs of the police' division in which it is situated and a new station fs to be built in Savile Row, the home of men's fashions. When Vine Street station goes it will deserve a book all to itself." In the night club era' dominated by the fascinating and persistent personality of Mrs. Meyrick it was always in the news for it was through iis doors that offenders against "DORA," the wet blanket of days, passed on their way 10) Souicla: fetbeton for daring ty be Unrestrainedly and illegally gay dur. ing a dark period. Earlier still, Vine Street was even more famous for it Was the station which generally hand-Jed unruly undergraduates when Boat night was an event which sent urging crowds thronging through Piccadilly ooking for policemen's helmets as trophies. Many figures who were later to become famous in the Dublic affairs of the country passed through the station and emerged with related in after years. Although it is stated that the new Vine Street will be an imposing building of extremely modern design, Piccadilly strollers will have difficulty in reconciling themselves to the loss of the dingy station with its forbidding iron bars over the windows,
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