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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-11-01, Page 9Sit Winston t' 4 y ♦ i Westminster of all British Edward the ■n 5 European Holiday ■py^jMRS. J, M. SOUTHCOTT [side the hotel door 4 Imagine That! 4 $1,395 $T,2SOft 095t $ '45 Dodge, flat rack and hoist $ 295295 Viscount I s i « the days have very have Double Bed Mattress and . Malching Base. Legs Slightly Extra We want to have The Times-Advocate mailed to lis every week. Here’s $3.00 for a year's subscription. Please start it with the next edition# 79$ * rTOva n re '51 Ford Pickup $ 650 $ 895 46'$, 47's and 48's PRICED TO SELL TRUCKS 950 '50 CMC; Pickup Low mileage $ 595 Th* Tim«*-Advoc<t«, November I, 1956 London s Old Landmarks H istory t’?* However, after three days In the city before going to tk„ continent and two more * since our return, we learned to like London much and wotild like to stayed longer. On Sunday morning, following our arrival, we were taken on'a tour of the city. Just as London is the heart of Britain, so Picca­ dilly Circus is the heart of Lon­ don. It shares with Big Ben the position of London’s landmark as the Umpire State Building is New York’s trademark, and the Eiffel Tower, the trademark of Paris. Circus here means circle formed by the junction of five principle' streets; Shaftesbury Avenue, Coventry Street, Lb.Wer Regent Street, Piccadilly and Regent street. When the traffic starts pouring into Piccadilly Circus from all these streets the result is really a circus, A familiar part of the scene are the’ huge, red two-decker city buses. The famous statue of Eros, goddess of love, sits atop a foun­ tain in the centre of the circle which keeps the cars from climb­ ing all over .each other’s fenders. You’ve seen pictures of Picca­ dilly Circus in practically every film that’s supposed to have its locale in London? Trafalgar , Sqpdim vies with Piccadilly CU'cral ns the centre of West End traffic. In the centre of the? square is a 143- foot high granite: column topped by the figure of Lord Nelson, victor of the great naval battle of Trafalgar. 1 ^JBen - we arrived at Kensing- -JbBW a, a lace Hotel, London, on Waturday evening, September 15, .an all day drive from Leeds, we felt rather lost know­ ing we were in one of the largest cities of the world. I remember thinking “I’ll never -venture out- NEVER FEAR, MY LADY PEAR THE STRENGTH I NEED TO DO THIS DEED UET FROM DRINKIN6 THE GOOP MILKOF HWIMMUMW j. MATTRESS AND MATCHING BASE BUYS THE MOST COMFORTABLE BEP IN THE WORLP Dinney Furniture PHONE 20-W See Downing Street We passed by a narrow little street — almost an alley on the right. ,,-It’s Downing Street, one of the most famous and most important in oyr Western world, Our guide pointed out No. 10, which was similar to all the other houses in, the street ex­ cept that a ’‘bobby” stands in front or the door. This small, three-storey building • is the official residence of the Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, and former home of Churchill, We came to Abbey, the scene coronations sipce .....,, „ , Confessor was crowned there in 1042, Divine Service was in progress, and we sat down and listened for a few minutes. Just inside the Great West Door as we entered, was the grave of the Unknown Soldier. The body was placed here in the presence of King George V, Queen Mary, Queen Alexandria, the Queen of Norway, the Prince of Wales (now Duke of Windsor), Mr, Lloyd George, prime minis­ ter, and a great gathering .of people on November 11, 1920. The tombstone is a slab of black Belgian marble and bears the inscription: “They buried him among the Kings because he had done good toward God and to­ ward His House.” The tombstone is surrounded by red poppies, Owing to the pressure of time: in our tour, we did not see as' much of this building as we would have liked to, so we came back on our own later to browse around. The Abbey is now undergoing extensive renova­ tions and certain parts were closed. The South Transept is known as the “Poets’ Corner,” and here can be seen the tombs of Chau­ cer, Macaulay, Browning and Tennyson, who are actually buried here, and memorials to Milton-, Tennyson, Burns. Southey Coleridge, Wordsworth, Dr. Johnson and many others. One memorial we noted was to Dr. H. Lyle, writer of “Abide With Me.” We had noticed a monu­ ment to him in the cemetery of a church at Nice where he had gone for his health. Commemorate, Famous Men In, former days, people could be buried in- the Abbey on pay- ,ment of a fee, and there, are many memorial? erected to people of little consequence. But many of England’s greatest men are commemorated in the nave, including Sir Campbell Banner- man, Neville Chamberlain, and Ernest Bevin, and men of science such as Newton, Darwin and Sir Gilbert Scott. • The last king to be interred m the Abbey was Geoi'ge II. Since then our Kings and Queens have been buried at Windsor. —Please Turn To Page 14 Sorority Holds Pled“ge Dinner The'annual pledge ritual din­ ner was held last Tuesday eve­ ning at Armstrong’s Restaurant. Toasts were proposed to Beta Sigma Phi byvMrs. R. C. Dinney; to' Mrs. C. Wellington,' by Mrs. R. W. Read, and to the new pledges by Miss Jean Taylor and responded to by Mrs. I-Ial Hooke. 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