"David Rance" wrote
Does anyone here remember what happened to London in 1928? ;-)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26153241


Interesting especially the photo of those tarred wooden blocks that they
used to lay on the roads that had floated up off the road, caption says
paving but it's not as we know it now. Used to quieten those metal rimmed
tyres on the cart wheels.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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