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Article: CHARING CROSS
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- October 25, 2005
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THEN THE people who lived in Charing Cross in 1960 were proud of
their area. If only they'd known what lay in store.
At this time, it was an agreeable bustle of tenements that, like
Charing Cross Mansions and the sumptuous Grand Hotel, dated from the
Victorian era.
But much of that was lost when the go-ahead was given for the new
M8 to be sliced through the Cross.
The bulldozers revved up en masse in the late 1960s, cutting a
swathe through roads and buildings to pave for an inner-city ring
road, which was built at a cost of GBP6million.
The Grand Hotel fell victim in early 1969, and conservationists
were angry that so many fine buildings had to be destroyed in the
name of progress.
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