Show FEW FRAME HOUSES old wooden structures that possess historical interest soon to DC be torn down london across bridge scarcely alvo minutes walk from st pauls cathedral catlie iral la Is a row of very ancient framo buildings the only one of its kind now remaining within tho the boundaries of tho the metropolitan district those old wooden structures are soon to comedown como Mown to make room lor for modern ofil ces from the purely architectural or artistic point of alow these particular wooden buildings aro arc nothing to boast aa I 1 only frame buildings in london of any new american western town can show similar structures they are clinker built two story affairs as to outward appearance pe arance but it Is their history that counts these buildings always have possessed more or less interest to Arneri american pan visitors as they were erected luring during the first year of the american wax wait of independence As specimens ol oi early london building work they pos sess seas an interest in themselves affet the great london fire of a large rumber number of wooden buildings were erected in various parts of london and though these particular ones did not come into existence exl stanco until a hundred years afterwards they were regarded in their day as among the most imposing edi edifices flees of their kind historically the buildings possess Inte having baving been the temporary abiding place of the famous engineer Is ambard kingdom brunei brunai who built the first tunnel under the thames and also planned the famous clifton clafto suspension bridge which I 1 won him fame in the engineering world aiso was the designer of the great estern eastern the largest ship ever built and of the erst propeller ship to cross the atlantic it Is sald said that he be lived in these houses during the years yeara of the greatest engineering activity |