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(about 458 square yards), to be thrown into and made part
of the main roadway, the Board using their influence to
obtain an Order of Quarter Sessions for stopping up the
old footpath, and at their own expense making a new kerbed
and asphalted footpath on the ground given up and thrown
into the roadway.
2. Mr. Howard also giving up a piece of his land, in
all about 1374 square yards, on which the Railway Company
arc to build a new Station on their down line.
3. The Company selling the site of the present down
lino Station to the Board for £500, so as to admit of the
present Bridge over the railway, now only 25 feet wide,
being lowered and made 45 feet in width.
4. The Board bearing the cost of widening and forming
the road, and reconstructing the bridge.
The Improvement has been submitted to and approved
by the Metropolitan Board, and such approval is understood
to carry with it a material contribution towards the cost
to be iucurrcd by the Board, but considerable time will
elapse before the amount of outlay can be even approximately
ascertained, and in the meantimo any further application to
the Metropolitan Board is deferred.
In pursuance of the agreement made between the
parties, the necessary preliminaries were at once undertaken
for an application to the (April, 1875) Quarter Sessions, for
the stopping up of the Footpath.
Of minor Improvements effected in Lewisham Parish
during the year, the most important is the Footbridge Qver
the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway at Sydenham
Park (formerly called Park End), about midway between
the Sydenham and Forest Hill Railway Stations.
The important improvement contemplated in Penge,
viz., the widening of the Bridge over the West End and
Crystal Palace Railway in the Anerley Road, has been
advanced some steps during the year. 1 he estimated cost
is £1000, and the Board is still awaiting the decision of the
Metropolitan Board as to the contribution to be made by
them.