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Footway Paving Works.—The Vestry resolved on the 26th June
1895 to relay the footways of Crampton Street from Newington Butts
to Hodson Street with new 3 in. York stone, the cost to be defrayed
out of the new paving loan. The list of paving works amounting
to £30,000, as submitted by the late Surveyor (see page 67 of preceding
Report) received careful consideration; and ultimately all the
carriageway works were omitted, and the list of footway works
reduced from £11,000 to £10,301 by substituting Norwegian curb
for Guernsey, and relaying a few of the selected streets with old York
to be removed from those footways proposed to be relaid with new
Victoria stone. The Committee on the 2nd October 1895 submitted
to the Vestry the following recommendations:—
That application be made to the London County Council for a loan of
£10,000, repayable in 15 years, to enable the Vestry to carry out
certain footway paving works amounting to £10,301 3s. 3d., as per
list submitted.
That a contract be entered into with the Patent Victoria Stone Company,
Limited. to carry out the work as per schedule of prices, upon the
Company undertaking to guarantee the work for two years and make
good any defects occurring within that period free of cost to the Vestry.
The recommendations were carried, an amendment by Mr. Bridges
to refer the second paragraph back until a new Surveyor was
appointed, who should report upon the relative advantages of doing
the work by contract or by the Vestry's staff under his own control,
being lost upon a division by one vote only—24 against 25. The
Committee observed in its report that the employment of labour
direct would entail at least an extra cost upon the parish of 1½d. per
foot including cartage, besides delaying the completion of the work.
The loan of £10,000 was taken up with the Council on the 27th
November at 27/8 per cent. interest payable quarterly, the principal
to be repaid by 15 equal annual instalments on the 1 st October in
each year. The costs paid by the Vestry amounted to £20.
The following is the schedule of works adopted by the Vestry:—