The Archive · 1939

Proposed Youth City

A proposal to build a £1,000,000. Youth City in or adjoining London, as a centre for all the youth organizations of the Empire, has caused quite a lot of excitement. Other nations. it is suggested, should be invited to build pavilions at it for their young people, and thus a happy atmosphere of international good-fellowship would radiate from it for the pacification of the world. Plans have been published, showing a semicircle of huge factory-like buildings, containing a restaurant to seat 600, theatre to seat 1200, gymnasiums, swimming baths, dormitories, recreation rooms, to accommodate 2,000 school-children and students.

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