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Show Planned to Put Girdle of Green About London John Loudoun, a famous landscape gardener who lived a century ago, was the author of a scheme to put a permanent per-manent "green girdle" around London. Lon-don. In 1S20 Loudoun proposed to , form a tree-planted boulevard round the metropolis. His Idea was to widen Euston road then known as New road and continue this through ... ' Mar.vlehone, across Hyde park and via Sloane street to the river, over Vaiix-hall Vaiix-hall bridge', and then by way of Ken-nington, Ken-nington, Camberwell and Deptford to Greenwich park, where it wns to re-cross re-cross the Thames on a high viaduct and return by the City road back to N'ew road. A beginning was actually made, but the cost of the scheme proved too great, and the only portion carried out comprised the imposing turnings off Edgware road known as Oxford and Cambridge terraces. |