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London, July 19.
Ton years ago the air raid sirons wara wailing over Britain. The first bomb fell on Hoy in the Orknoys on October 17, 1939. The first civilian was killed at the Bridge of Waith, on March 16, 1940, half a year after World War II started. The first bombs near the London area hit farmland at Addington, Surrey, on
June 18.
It hit an open space, caused no damage.
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of London's many squares have been redesigned. Ja accordanca with the plan.
And the first of 50,000, towns on the outskirts to effect blenk lincs, Parks have been bombs, not counting incen- decentralisation of both people fald out for the first time since the arén was settled almost 500 and 1,720 small factories and the diaries, which German -bem- bere dumped on London in 13 creation of a "green belt," around years ago, and streets selald and months
the capital for open space and re-widened, fell on the clear, creation,
The docks still line-and no moonlight night of July 11,
For the country of London his traffle tunnels have been dug 1940.
of plan calls for a relocation under-the Thames. And fow streels and arterial highways to relieve growing trable congestion, elimination of sub-standard housing, more parks and the
The emergency housing had prevention of the intermingling to come first it had of industry and housing.
For by mid-1862 the Council Professor Abercromble
says it either will have rebulit, proved of carlier planners' sug. | repaired or completely replace-i gestions that parks repiace docks all the 145,000 houses-destroyed for about one mile on the North or damaged in the Metro-
six bank of the Thames, for traffic į politan Boroughs cť West- tunnels under the Thames to ease minster, Holborn, Stepney, Poplar, traffic congestion on bridges, and Lewisham and Wandsworth. working-class fats in the upper-class residential
was
The war lasted for Ave years and eight months, For 47 of those 68 months London more or less under attack from the air with an intensive period of 17 months.
..
From the dramatic moment at 1130
on Sunday, Sep tember 3, 1939, when the first falsu aları sent Londoners scurrying to air raid shelters or to their backyards to look at the sky, until March 28, 1035-when the nir raids sirens sounded for the last time-there wete 1,227 Bir raid lets in Central Lon.
The property damage was Im- mense, When the war unded, 145,000 hours in Metropolitan London alone had bern demo- fished or made uninhabitable,
Thousands of houses have been rebuilt. So have numbers of damaged and levelled buildings, That completion of an ambitious plan for full reconstruction of the capital cvill test came for at least 15 yearg, perhaps longer, The Fountry cannot afforrt it. homes must come Best.
Planners' vision
¦
ap-
now districts
of Mayfair, Belgravin and Knightsbridge.
Now, much fresh paint and bright flowers hide the shabbi- nean of the meat old city.
Progress 14 at slow, too, on What would completion of the the Greater London plan, pri- plan cost and how long wond marily beenuse of Inci of take? the planners were asked, money and because the Govern-
We do not know, replied
ment feels there are the
nore im. planners, because we do not portant things, know how high property values But all eight of the
satellite will be and how much building towns called fur-under the Aber- materials will coal after the war, crombie plah have been laid out Both plans are under way, and most, says the Ministry of now. The time of their com-Town and Country Planning, are plation is highly problematical. bustling communities of about
Cost gigantic
100,000 each.,
of
"For one thing, the cost will be ketry, though, has not enred
the New digaulle-In
billions unich about the plan's decentral- pounds," says an offelal of thesation of factories, so most of the London County Council,
satellites are so-called "dorml "We estimate that one phase of tory" towns whose people com→ the rebuilding of the Metropo- mute back and forth
their litan area, according to the plan, work in London, | Hil
would cost about £200,000,069, We will have to buy-aid then clear-3,000 to 4,000 acres
for parks in heavily congested urens where property values are high and still climbing.”
stracts
Counting hoth Metropolitan London and the Greater London area. which covers 2.599 square thou. of miles many hundreds sands of
of homes were damaged or destroy
red. "The
immense task of rt. building inspleed the planners. They saw ahead a real opport- unity to construct a London for future generations with better housing.
many more
parks, wider and straighter and less traffic congestion. Serious discussions about the rebuilding of the city started in 1942. Victory
For view, then, but Londoners always were confident of the outcome,
By 1943, two plans had been drawn up by Professor Fatrick Abercrombie, 05-year-old profes- town and country plan- ning at the University of London.
They covered: 1. The
rebuilding of Greater London-the whole mass built-up stree
streets, including the muler
subu-ba 2. Metropolitan Lention, or the ministrative county of London. the inner area.
Of
Was
There is opposition from the wharf and godown owners au:1 from the docksie boroughs of. Stepney and Poplar nere The plan calls for no more single housing units but for large blocks of flats each housing 300-400 familes.
"We do not
want blocks of the Indignantly insisted
om Poplar
3. The City proper, the square mile that encloses the Bank of England. the financial district and the Lord Mayor's head-
quarters.
Satellite towns Broadly, the Abercrombie plan for Greater London calls for the construction-or -eight sutellte
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Foroughi Counells. "We have always had single houses in these boroughs and we are going to have them again.".
Then, too, there was the Im- medinte post-war demand for houses of any kind. So bomb rubble was cleared and thau sands of prefabs avere put up m mediately. Other thousands of war-damaged homes due for de- molition were repaired in an at- tempt to comply with the insis- tent clamour of the thousands of homeless.
Despite opposition, the Counci says it has generally carried out the plan in the rebuilding of the borough of Poplar, one of the most heavily bombed areas.
Housing first
Blocks of flats replaced the dingy brick single family houses. standing mile after mile in long,
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Vocabulary: 398. (yau) (1)yau
BY SK. LEE
310. (ch'eung) (1)cherng
Combinations:
59. Goong(1) (1)cherng.
Lesson 40 1
00. Foy(1)-gay(1) (1)cherng.
Iultative Expressions:
12. Bal(1) sve(2)..
Place Names:
10. (1) Lon-don(1).
11. Son(1)-dong(1)-baw(1)-
don().
12. Oy(1)-(3)kup.
13.
14.
Gah(1)-(2)yee-gok(3)-
doap(3).
(2)Yerng-gwong(1),
15. (3) Maun-gook(1).
10. Kai(2)-dulc(1).
General Expressions:
130. Gong(3) (3)lok.
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04.
(2) Ngaw hul(3)-doli (3) (1)Lon-don(1).
05. (2) Ngaw hal(2). (1)Lon- don(1) Awaw(3)-jaw(2), yul(1) (3)ych.
GG. (2)Ngaw (1)ynu (1)Lon-
don(1) daap(3) bah(1) sce(2) hut(3) Son(1)-
· dong(1)-baw(1)-dön. 07. (1)Ynu.Soh(1)-dong(1)-
bow(1)-don(1), ((2)ngaw) daap(3) fay(1) gay(1) huf(3)-doh (3) Oy(1)- (3)kup.
08. (1)You Oy(1)-(3)kup,
ging(1)-gwaw(3) hoh(2)- dow(1) (3)day-fong(1), hul(9)-doh(3) (nh(1)- (2)yeo-gok(3)-doop(3). 99% Dzoy(3) (1)yau Gah(1)-
(2)yce-gok(3)-daap(8),
w ging(1)-gwaw【3) (2)Yerng- wong(1) (1) Loong (3) Mann-
• gook(1);; (1)fal-doh(3)
1. Gau(2)-(1)loonka 100. Gah(3) fay(1)«gay(1) 2.
hai(2) Kal(2)-duk(1), }}/{ay(i)-gay(1) (1)cherng. (gong(3)–(3)lokaya
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London. Southampton.
Egypt.
Calculla.
Rangoon,
Bangkok.
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To land. (aeroplane)
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I stayed one night in London.
I took a motor-bus from Lon- don to Southampton..
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