ABSTRACT
In 1924, a new attack on Houghton Street was launched by the School in Clare Market. Attack was opened on the rest of Houghton Street-eight small houses and a corner building owned and used by St. Clement's Press-by letters to the L. C. C. valuer Frank Hunt, to the Chief Education Officer Sir Robert Blair, and to Sir William Berry of St. Clement's Press. In October 1924 the Senate was 'of opinion that it is of the utmost importance that the property in Houghton Street therein referred to should be acquired for the purposes of the London School of Economics'. The first seven Houghton Street houses, obtained by compulsion in 1925, reached our hands at last in 1927. When the battle for Houghton Street was on, argument to this effect had convinced in turn the University Senate, the Board of Education, the London County Council, and the House of Commons Committee on Private Bills.
