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London Oddities # 1: St Pancras Church
 St Pancras Church on the Euston Road, was made in Classic Greek Temple style with a row of beautiful hand maidens supporting the projecting alcoves. The statues were made of Coade’s artificial stone, that took three years to make. They were brought to the church looking dainty until they were ready to be put into place, Mr. Charles Rossi their builder, found that the measurements were a little out and try as he may he could not get them to fit.
With a large crowd bemused at his misfortune Rossi needed to act rather quickly, to regain his self respect, so he preformed a surgical operation and 12 inches were lobbed from their midriff. As the traffic on the boarders of the congestion zone slowly pass by, I wonder how many notice the out of proportion ladies that just don’t look quite right.
London Oddities # 2: The Phoney houses
Front view of numbers 22 - 23 Leinster Terrace.
With the beginning of the first tube line running from Paddington to Farringdon, demand grew for more tube lines within the area. Property was purchased and then demolished to make way for these new lines. To help keep house prices high in the rather posh area of Leinster Terrace Bayswater,
a reconstruction looking like terraced houses from the front and more like a film set at the rear. How many passers by ever notice this false property.
This photo shows the behind view
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