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which the same would be removed. These terms were agreed to and an agreement
embodying same was executed on the 15th June, 1897.
(e) No. 62, SHOREDITCH HIGH STREET.
The possibility of commencing a desirable improvement in Shoreditch High
Street by the widening of the eastern side of that street from the corner of Bethnal
Green Road to Church Street offered itself by the falling in of a lease on the
25th March, 1897, and in view of the heavy cost of such work and the public benefits
which would obtain as a result of the widening of any portion of a street such as this
(which forms a main artery from the City to the North of London) the Works
Committee thought it desirable to approach the London County Council with a view
to the scheme being carried out as a Metropolitan Improvement, in the same manner
in which the portion of the street near the Parish Church was widened sometime
previously. The matter however was abandoned owing to the fact that the Council
could not see their way to undertake the work as a County or Metropolitan Improvement
for the present.
(f) Re JOHN STREET.
In April, 1897, the Works committee considered a letter from the managing
director of the Wenlock Brewery Company, Ltd., offering the sum of £1,000 to the
Vestry for the closing of John Street and the conveyance to the Company by the
Vestry of the Freehold, the Vestry first obtaining the necessary authority. After
some correspondence it was agreed by the Company that the sum of £1,250 should
be paid to the Vestry for this concession. The recommendations of the Works Committee
upon being submitted to the Vestry, after having been first deferred for the
purpose of giving members of the Vestry an opportunity of viewing, was on 6th July,
1897, defeated, and the proposal was consequently not proceeded with.
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(g) MESSRS. WATERLOW'S PREMISES—EARL STREET AND
APPOLD STREET.
On the 10th June, 1897, the Works Committee considered an application from
Messrs. Waterlow to erect certain premises adjoining Earl Street and Appold Street,
upon a passageway not required as a thoroughfare, which application was granted by
the Vestry upon the recommendation of the Works Committee, subject to Messrs.
Waterlow's executing an agreement providing for the payment of an annual acknowledgment
rent of £10. This decision was accordingly conveyed to the applicants,
who replied by stating that they would much prefer to be permitted to pay to the
Vestry a lump sum of £150 for all rights and privileges over the passageway, instead
of the sum of £10 per annum. The Committee after carefully considering the question,
recommended that a sum of £200 be accepted, which was agreed to by Messrs.
Waterlow and adopted by the Vestry on the 7th September, 1897. A conveyance was
drawn up and duly executed on the 28th September, 1897, when a cheque for £200
was paid to the Vestry.