The Face of London

acres adjoining air raids Avenue Bank blitz block of shops blocks of flats bombed Borough Bridge Buckingham Palace building built Cannon Street centre century church of St Cinema Circus City Company construction contains corner cost Court damaged demolished destroyed district Duke east side Edgware Road Epping Forest erected extending feet formerly frontage Gardens Gate Green ground handsome High Street Hill Holborn Hotel House Hyde Park junction Kensington King King William Street Lane London County Council Lord mansion Messrs metropolis Metropolitan Metropolitan Board mile north side occupied opened opposite originally Oxford Street Palace parish Piccadilly Piccadilly Circus Place PLATE Portland stone pulled Queen Queen Victoria Railway rebuilt red brick Regent Street residence river roadway Royal south side Square St James's St Paul's St Paul's Cathedral stands Station stood storeys high suburb Terrace Thames Theatre thoroughfare tower traffic Victoria Embankment Victoria Street west side Westminster widened