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The impending termination of the contract of the Board with
the Company, and their inability to extend the lighting except at
a much increased rate, have, with other considerations, prevented
them from hitherto acceding to the memorials they have from time
to time received requesting the lighting of the Village of, and
roads on, Blackheath; Hither Green Lane; Ladywell; and Loampit
Hill. As to Hither Green Lane there was the additional reason
that a memorial was presented to the Board numerously signed
objecting to the expence which the lighting would entail. The Mid
Kent Railway Company were foremost in their application for
lighting Ladywell, and the Road from their Station at Lower
Sydenham to Bell Green, but they declined to contribute towards
the expence. It was intended to have lighted Lewisham Hill, in
order to mitigate in some measure the danger of the high footpath
there, opposite and belonging to the owner of Dartmouth
Terrace; but the suggestion for this remedy of the evil did not
reach the Board until shortly before the end of the lighting season,
and it was hoped that in course of the summer such an amendment
would be made in the Act as would enable the Board to deal with
this nuisance in a more effectual manner; the lighting was, therefore,
postponed.
Sydenham.
The lighting of Sydenham has been extended to the Laurie Road,
where four lamps have been erected. Two have also been placed in
Hanover Road, two in Willow Road, one at Park End, and one in
St. Germain's Road. These lamps are lit under the same contract
as those originally erected, and although the same measure is meted
to this—the Crystal Palace District Gas Company—as the Phoenix,
they have not made their increased assessment to the rates a ground
for anv increase in their rorice of gas.