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MR. T. LL. HUMBERSTONE sends us a copy of a letter he has sent to the Clerk of the London County Council relating to the provision of an open space on part of the site of the new buildings of the University of London at Bloomsbury. He informs us that since his election as a member of the Holborn Borough Council in November last, he has found that an undertaking was given by the University to the Council and also to the London County Council that the University would “preserve a garden area with trees and grass equal in size to, but not necessarily identical in location with, that now existing in Torrington Square gardens”. It appeared after inquiries made by Mr. Humberstone that this undertaking was not carried out by the layout of the buildings. Representations were therefore made, with the result that a new design and layout have been prepared, providing approximately an acre of additional open space in the form of three bays on the Malet Street frontage, giving this fa$ade a crenelated form. Mr. Humberstone is the author of a valuable historical work on “University Reform in London“and contributed to NATURE of July 9, 1932, a long article on the development of the University and the design of the new Buildings.
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University of London Buildings. Nature 135, 785 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135785c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135785c0