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The Architect who transformed London - Page 3

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Let the readers recollect the huddled mass of wretched streets and Houses which twenty years ago covered the site of Regent Street, the Quadrant and Waterloo Place; let the reader recollect the still more Wretched courts and alleys, dens of infamy and haunts of thieves, Which maze-like spread themselves from St.Martin's Church to the Neighbourhood of Covent Garden; let him now look upon the range Of buildings and the handsome streets which occupy their places... Let the reader, we say, turn his eyes to that magnificent adjunt of London, The Regent's Park, now one of the healthiest and gayest of the public Walks and drives, a creation of the mind of Mr. Nash.10

1 Hibbert, Christopher. George IV. Penguin, London, 1976. P..468. 2 Summerson,John. Georgian London. Penguin, London, 1969, p.179 3 Ibid., p.179 4 Ibid., p.181 5 Renzo, Salvadori. An Architect's Guide to London. Butterworth Architecture. 1990. London, p.84 6 Ibid., p.84 6 Puckler-Muskau, Puckler's Progress, pp.21-24, quoted in Murray, Venetia. High Society: A Social 1788 History of the Regency Period -1830. P.287 7 Summerson, John. Georgian London, p.202 8 Ibid., p.202 9 Hibbert, Christopher. George IV, p.521 10 Summerson, John. Life and Work of John Nash. P.190

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