HC Deb 30 October 1882 vol 274 cc376-7
MR. BERESFORD HOPE

asked the First Commissioner of Works, If his attention has been drawn to the great danger of destruction from fire in which the National Portrait Gallery is involved by the construction in close proximity of a series of huge wooden sheds intended to serve as a Fisheries Exhibition, and if additional precautions will be taken to prevent so great a calamity?

MR. SHAW LEFEVRE,

in reply, said, he had already been in communication with the authorities of the Exhibition on the subject, and they had promised him that no building would be erected nearer than 85 feet from the National Portrait Gallery, and the Government Surveyor was of opinion that this would be ample security against any danger.