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PAVING WORKS, IMPROVEMENTS, &c.
PARISH OF CLAPHAM.
Paving and
Repairing Streets.
The portion of Abbeville Road between
No. 15 and Elms Road, the portion of the Klea Avenue
between Cavendish Road and Narbonne Avenue, and
Brayburne Avenue, have been paved and adopted by the
Board. Venn Street, on the Rectory estate, has been
adopted as a new road, taking the place of Waterloo Place,
Waterloo Retreat, and Bickley Place, which have been
pulled down; part only of the paving works has been
executed, the remainder being left until the new houses
are erected. Temporary repairs have been executed in
the portion of Tremadoc Road between the angle in the
road and the Lambeth parish boundary. The total
estimated cost, paid by the owners of adjoining property,
was £4,292 2s. 6d. The work done included 4,2S8 feet
super. 2½-inch York paving; 3,802 yards super, tarpaving;
22 yards super, blue brick paving laid on
6-inches of concrete; 930 yards super. 5-inch by 6-inch
granite channelling laid on 6 inches of concrete; 200
yards super. 9-inch by 5-inch by 3-inch yellow deal
pavement; 46 yards super. Jarrah wood pavement; and
5,390 feet lineal of 12-inch by 8-inch granite kerb; the
roads were made up with 800 cubic yards hard core,
890 cubic yards stone gravel, 1,160 cubic yards flints,
and 200 cubic yards hoggin, and consolidated by rolling
with the steam roller.
Steam Roller.
The steam roller has worked 244 days
during this (the tenth) year; on 79 of these days the