A hundred years ago | London’s ‘street of silence’

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London, October 7: The City Corporation is carrying out an interesting experiment in Black-friar’s neighbourhood repairing the street by means of terra cotta blocks on which there is a covering of rubber. It is claimed that this first “rubber street” in the world is soundless, dustless, nonskidding and more durable.

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