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Article: STREETS APART; THE GREAT DIVIDE: NEW RING ROAD MEANT THE END FOR MANY FAMOUS BUILDINGS AS IT RAN THROUGH THE HEART OF CITY; CHARING CROSS; VIEW DOWN SAUCHIEHALL STREET
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- January 21, 2004
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Charing Cross once stood in the middle of a huge bustle of
tenements that dated from the Victorian era, as did Charing Cross
Mansions and the sumptuous Grand Hotel.
Seen from the air in the picture right, the area is virtually
unrecognisable from the way it is today.
The bulldozers moved in on Charing Cross in the late 1960s,
cutting a swathe through roads and buildings. The effect was as if a
giant's fist had carelessly knocked down everything in its path.
The demolitions were intended to pave the way for an inner-city
ring road, which was built at a cost of (pounds) 6million and would
change the face of Charing Cross forever.
But conservationists at the time were upset that so many ...