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Letters from London

Letters to the Editor, from the Country Life archive. Our text and photographic archives date back to the magazine’s inception, in 1897. All enquiries to clpicturelibrary@ti-media.com

SIR, What happy memories are brought to mind by your delightful picture of Hyde Park Corner as it used to be, with its horse-drawn carts, open-topped buses, and so on (‘). But one thing is missing, and I have no difficulty in filling it in from memory. The road up from Grosvenor Place, in front

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