WE WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST with great humility (because we always ought to presume that people know their own business best) that the chances of selling a house do not actually increase in proportion to the number of notice boards exhibited without. Moreover they can easily prove an offence to the neighbours’ eyes, always assuming that the neighbours have some regard for tidiness or for architecture. We commend the matter to the Incorporated Society of Auctioneers and Landed Property Agents.
AFTER WHICH it is a pleasure to illustrate one of the very well-lettered and well-designed notice boards which have recently been erected on Hampstead Heath (not twenty yards from our first picture as it happens, and both within sight of the writer’s house). Credit, presumably, to the L.C.C. Parks Department.
OUR NEXT is a block of shop buildings in Sheen sent by a correspondent, not because he particularly admires the architecture, which is, indeed, of no interest if harmless, but because the builder, Mr. T. H. Adamson of Putney, has enforced on all the tenants a uniform-sized letter for their names, and permitted no competition at all in out-hanging signs, thereby saving them unnecessary expense and saving passers-by the sort of thing . . .
. . . which habit alone can excuse us for enduring in the famous thoroughfare the spirit of which was so nicely expressed in the refrain:
