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Shoreditch 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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had been received. The closing of this alley in view of the new roadway was
effected upon the certificate of two Magistrates, and the passage has been closed.
(c) GOLDSMITHS ROW.
The negotiations previously reported with owners and occupiers of the frontages
in Goldsmiths Row and Dove Row have now been completed by obtaining legal
assurances to the Vestry of the various portions of the frontages to the above named
thoroughfares, the subject of those negotiations.
The lengths of the frontages thus acquired amount altogether to 434 feet in
Goldsmiths Row, and 153 feet 6 inches in Dove Row, by depths varying between
about five and seven feet, and the improvement must be considered most valuable to
the neighbourhood.
The value of this improvement is curtailed by the unfortunate fact that it does
not embrace the Goldsmiths Arms property, but, as mentioned in the last report,
so large a price was asked by the Leaseholder that it appeared better to leave the
improvement incomplete than to pay anything like the price asked for it.
The amounts paid for compensation and costs respectively, are as follows:—
| Name. | Interest. | Compensation. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | ||
| Mr. Jas. Smith (First portion) | Leaseholder | 308 | 2 | 4 |
| Messrs. H. & C. Winkley | Do. | 459 | 7 | 3 |
| Mr. Siggins | Do. | 33 | 15 | 0 |
| Mr. Matthews | Do. | 59 | 10 | 0 |
| Trustees of Chapel | Do. | 65 | 6 | 8 |
| Mr. Jas. Smith (Second portion) | Do. | Nil. | ||
| Mrs. Beken | Do. | Nil. | ||
| Rev. C. J. Scott | Freeholder (costs only) | 54 | 4 | 10 |
| Total £980 | 5 | 1 | ||
(d) VAULT AT No. 38 AND 40, CURTAIN ROAD.
It having come to the knowledge of the Works Committee that a vault had been
constructed at these premises without their consent having first been applied for and
obtained, the builder was called upon to sign an undertaking to permit any pipes,
conduits, &c., to be laid by the Vestry to pass through the vault and to remove the
same at any future time when called upon by the Vestry so to do, and to pay to the
Vestry the sum of £10 for the privilege of being permitted to retain the vault, failing