Destroyed London Buildings
Several of Smirke's London buildings are no longer extant, the victims of demolition, fire and the London Blitz:
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Famous quotes containing the words destroyed and/or london:
“For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“I don’t care very much for literary shrines and haunts ... I knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle’s yard. And when I said, “Why throw a stone into Carlyle’s yard?” she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.”
—Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)