1937-02-10 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 10, 1937.

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City Of Light And Colour

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

For the Coronation next May London will be a city of light and colour. Plans have already been made for the most brilliant scheme of decorations and illuminations ever seen in a great city.

Many factories are already work- ing at full capacity to meet the de- mand for materials.

Floodlighting, used so extensive- ly for the Silver Jubilee last year, will be vastly increased. Many more buildings will be illuminated, an official of the General Electric Com- pany told me, and greater use will be made of coloured lighting, which has been made much cheaper by the development of the electric dis- charge lamp.

It has been suggested that other London parks should be floodlit as was St. James's Park last year, and many of the big stores are prepar- ing lighting schemes.

ROUTE OF PROCESSION Some of the West. End clubs and other institutions have decided to decorate on lines similar to those adopted for the Silver Jubilee. The plans of others are held up pending the announcement of the route of the procession. This, the writer was informed by the Office of Works, has not yet been finally decided

At the Coronation of King George V in 1911, the route was 25 follows:

Buckingham Palace, the Mall, Whitehall, to Westminster Abbey, returning via Whitehall, Trafalgar- square, Pall Mall, St. James's-street. Piccadilly and Constitution Hill.

It has been suggested that for King George VI's coronation the route should be extended over West- minster Bridge, through part of South London, back over London Bridge and through the City, Fleet- street and the Strand. Another sug- gestion was for the return journey via Regent-street, Oxford-street, Park-lane and Hyde Park Corner.

HUGE DEMAND FOR FLAGS Firms who will decorate many public and private buildings, are working at high pressure. The mak ing of Union Jacks is the most ex- acting task, since it can be under- taken only by women with from three to four years' training, and few of these skilled hands are avail- able

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manufacturers and calico printers are also busy. In- quiries from all parts of the Em- pire indicate that the demand for flags and bunting will be greater than ever before.

Mr. G. Gray Wornum, the archi- tect who has been asked to prepare designs for the street decorations in Westminster, has suggested the use for pylons in the centre of the roadways, from which streamers would lead to the buildings on either side, in place of the poles on the pavements used at the Jubilee. Against this it is urged that py- lons obstruct traffic. Poles can be erected without interference, with the surface of the roads. or pave- ments, since in Westminster there are pernänent iron sockets on the edges of the pavements for them.

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