HC Deb 29 November 1948 vol 458 cc1608-9
7. Mr. Keeling

asked the Minister of Works whether he intends to reinstate the eighteenth-century wrought-iron gates on the north side of Green Park, or in their earlier home at Chiswick House.

Mr. Key

The gates will be re-erected on the north side of Green Park, as soon as the repairs to them, now in hand, are completed.

Mr. Keeling

But as these magnificent gates, if put back in Piccadilly, would merely be part of a fence, and not used as gates at all, would the right hon. Gentleman consider again, whether, as suggested by the hon. Member for Brentford and Chiswick (Mr. F. Noel-Baker) in a letter to the "Sunday Times" yesterday, they could not be restored to Chiswick House, now acquired by the Government, where they were in the eighteenth century?

Mr. Key

My purpose, of course, was to restore them to the place from which they were removed during the war period, but I will certainly give consideration to the suggestion which the hon. Gentleman has made.