Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sixty Years of a Soldier's Life
My grandfather bought the freehold of Nos. 14 and 15 Queen's Square, now Queen Anne's Gate, two beautiful but highly uncomfortably arranged Queen Anne houses, in the beginning of last century for £5000. In 1867 his executors sold them to a northern plutocrat mp. For a ridiculously low price. They were not con sidered good enough for his residence, and he had them demolished, and in their place erected two most unsightly and lofty red-brick houses, which destroyed the sym metry of the surroundings, only to be matched by the disfigurement worked by the hideosity known as Queen Anne's Mansions. These two houses have now dis appeared, and in their place have been erected the sub stantial and stately offices of the Petrol octopus, which, not content with making corners in his own country, has extended his operations into the heart of London.
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