6 DECEMBER 1924, Page 3

A provisional arrangement has been made for the sale of

the Foundling Hospital. With the decision of the Foundation to accept a million and a half pounds for its present estate in Bloomsbury, and to move the charity to the country, one can hardly quarrel. But we must admit some trepidation on hearing the news that the present property is to be pulled down and the estate " developed." The estate includes such delightful and historic Bloomsbury places as Meeklenburgh and Brunswick Squares, which we should all be sorry to lose. But the way for the new owners to justify them- selves is to erect modern buildings whose architecture will be superior, or at any rate not inferior, to that of the buildings which they pull down. Then no one will have anything to complain about.

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