20 SEPTEMBER 1957, page 12

City And Suburban

By JOHN BETJEMAN SKY LINE I am sorry to see that the 'Dutch gables' have been removed from the tops of those late Vic- torian blocks of flats in Prince of Wales Drive,......

Why You No Thumpa Da Chest ?

By STRIX T IS believed widely, and nowhere more firmly I than in these islands, that the British are a modest race, averse from boasting and prone to understatement; in this......