Outing . right. Baker Street took us intoPark Road which encircles Regents we reached the fork of Park Roadand Wellington Street we took the latterand followed it until it becomes FinchleyRoad at the Marlboro Road station. Wewere then on the straight road towardEdinburgh. I have given these directionsrather minutely because London is a bigtown and we had considerable troublegetting a definite route out of it. Thisreminds me of some directions we receivedfrom one of the always polite asked him to direct us and his replywas: Bend with the road and only turnover when you are
Outing . right. Baker Street took us intoPark Road which encircles Regents we reached the fork of Park Roadand Wellington Street we took the latterand followed it until it becomes FinchleyRoad at the Marlboro Road station. Wewere then on the straight road towardEdinburgh. I have given these directionsrather minutely because London is a bigtown and we had considerable troublegetting a definite route out of it. Thisreminds me of some directions we receivedfrom one of the always polite asked him to direct us and his replywas: Bend with the road and only turnover when you are ten or a dozen doorsdown—all of which meant, we discovered,that we would come to a turn in the roadand after we had passed a dozen houses weshould cross over from our side—the Lon-doners are great sticklers for keeping on theproper side—and take the road leading offfrom the opposite side. The Great North Road over which wewere to motor all the way to Edinburghruns through Finchley about seven miles. Entrance to the Duke of Northumberlands castle. from the center of London; then throughChipping and Barnet to Hatfield, which istwenty miles out. Hatfield House, locatedhere, is the seat of the Marquis of Salis-bury. The original house, which wasbuilt between i ioo and 1200, is associatedclosely with the history of the earlyreigns of England. As far as Hatfieldthere is almost one continual settle-ment; the houses are very attractive, al-though not pretentious. It is very differ-ent from the suburbs through which we had passed in approaching London. There arerelatively few manufacturing establish-ments to the north, and altogether a betterclass of suburban homes. Before we reached Hatfield we had al-ready been impressed with the magnificenceof this Great North Road, which is said tohave been built by a Mr. Caesar whoseheadquarters were in Rome at the time. 11is the direct route from London to Edin-burgh and has been traveled for so manycenturies that the earliest histories of E
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