Show planned to put girdle of green about london Londo liz john loudoun a famous landscape gardener who lived a century a ago go was the 06 author of a scheme to pu put ta a permanent green green geraw around london in 1820 loudoun proposed to for form w a n tree iree planted boulevard round the metropolis ills idea was to widen euston road then known kno wn as aa new road and continue this through across auyde park park and via eloine street to the river oyer over vaux vans hail bull bridge and then by way 0 of f hennington ken ning ton camberwell Camb Cam berwell crell and Dept bertford deptford ford 1 to greenwich park where it was to the thames on a vilgil viaduct and return by the he city road back bach to new road A L beginning wits was actually made but the cost of tho the scheme schema proved too great and tho the only portion carried out comprised the imposing turnings off edgware edgward read known as aa oxford and cambridge terraces |