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Looking towards the lifts which were originally intended for staff use.
To their right is 'The Sower'.
The Latin inscription reads:
TEMPLUM HOC ARTIUM ET MUSARUM ANNO DOMINI MCMXXXI RECTORE JOHANNI REITH
PRIMI DEDICANT GUBERNATORES PRECANTES UT MESSEM BONAM BONA PROFERAT SEMENTIS
UT IMMUNDA OMNIA ET INIMICA PACI EXPELLANTUR UT QUAECUNQUE PULCHRA SUNT
ET SINCERA QUACUNQUE BONAE FAMAE AD HAEC AVREM INCLINANS POPULUS VIRTUTIS
ET SAPIENTIAE SEMITAM INSISTAT.
Translation:
This Temple of the Arts and Muses is dedicated to Almighty God by the
first Governors of Broadcasting in the year 1931, Sir John Reith being
Director- General. It is their prayer that good seed sown may bring forth
a good harvest, that all things hostile to peace or purity may be banished
from this house, and that the people, inclining their ear to whatsoever
things are beautiful and honest and of good report, may tread the path
of wisdom and uprightness.
Daylight floods in for this view taken in 1934.
Finally a 1939 shot.
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