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| Richard Rootes (W31) has sent Call Sign a copy of the London Evening News, dated September 26th 1931 which includes an article called GO BY TAXI. It gave readers several different routes they could take in order to miss the traffic. We have picked one just to show how times have changed… | |||
HOW THEY USED TO DO IT… (GET ACROSS LONDON, THAT IS!) |
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| The Evening News | September 26 1931 |
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| GO BY TAXI
By our |
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| The best way to cross London is
to get a taxi, remember the route and then use it yourself the next time. Here for instance is one that I have learned in this way. It will be found useful by all who live in that quarter of London that lies west of Edgware Road and north of the line from Marble Arch to Ealing and who use their own cars to take them to the theatre. Get into Hyde Park at Lancaster Gate Station, drive along the north side of it, round to the right at Marble arch and out of the park at the first gate |
afterwards, just
before Grosvenor House. Go straight across Park Lane into Upper Grosvenor Street and along
the south side of Grosvenor Square. Then turn to the right down Carlos Place into Mount Street and Berkeley Square. Follow round the north and east sides of Berkeley Square until you come to Bruton Street, turn left down it into Bond Street and to the right down Bond Street until you come to Burlington Gardens on the left. Turn up here and cut straight through along Vigo Street to Regent Street. Here you may turn to the |
right and go through Piccadilly
Circus, but if you are bound for Shaftsbury Avenue, you can miss the congestion by going
straight across Regent Street into Brewer Street, Little Pulteney Street and so across
Wardour Street into Old Compton Street. From here you can proceed according to your
destination taking any turning to the right into Shaftsbury Avenue or going straight
through into Cambridge Circus. Easy when you know how… |
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