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Your Surveyor having been instructed to interview the adjoining owners with
the view of getting a straight "give and take" line of fence in lieu of the existing
very irregular line, was successful in obtaining the desired improvement without
any cost to the Vestry.
Messrs. Clark, Hunt & Co. commenced these works on the 10th January, 1893,
and full particulars as regards costs, &c., will be furnished in the report next year.
On the 10th March the Surveyor reported that owing to the subsoil being
insecure it would be unsafe to build the walls according to drawings and specification.
It was resolved to construct concrete piers with intervening brick arches to
carry the walls, in accordance with drawing and estimate submitted.
The Surveyor further reported that in consequence of the London Countv
Council having given consent to the Vestry adhering to the old line of frontage for
the northern fence wall, it would be necessary to erect about 17 feet of additional
fencing on the east side of Recreation Ground. The Committee accordingly
resolved that Messrs. Clark, Hunt & Co. be instructed to execute this additional
fencing at the same rates of payment as those upon which their contract was based.
It is anticipated that the whole of the works will be completed so as to allow
the Recreation Ground to be formally opened to the public in the autumn of this
year.
In the preparation of this report it gives me much pleasure to acknowledge the
very able assistance rendered by Messrs. J. N. Heale and H. V. Broomfield, who
together have arranged the particulars. With equal pleasure I must also acknowledge
the labour given by Messrs. T. Byford, J. Hart, aud W. Edwards, foremen,
in furnishing the numerous measurements and statistics upon which the report is
founded. This extra labour, always most willingly rendered, will be especially
gratifying to the Vestry when the additional duties now thrown upon the Surveyor's
Department are taken into consideration.
1 am, Gentlemen,
Yours obediently,
ALFRED JACKSON MARTIN,
Surveyor.
Shoreditch Town Hall,
Old Street, E.C.