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Wandsworth 1894

Thirty-ninth annual report of the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District being for the year ended 25th of March 1895

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portion of Barrow Road has been paved at a cost of
£64 19s. Id.
In Tooting Bee Road, the footpath in front of Mr.
Heaver's new houses has been paved at a cost of
£36 2s. Ud.
In Greyhound Lane, the footpath adjoining the shops
on the High Elms estate has been paved at a cost of
£105 0s. 9d.
In Mitcham Lnne, the footpath in front of the
Roman Catholic Church lias been widened and paved
at a cost of £43 9s. 5d.
The passage leading to the Church Infant Schools in
Wellfield Road has been paved at a cost of £40 4s. 6d.,
and the expenses charged to the owners under 18 & 19
Vie. cap. 120, section 100, and 25 & 26 Vic., cap. 102,
section 81.
Nine galvanized sand boxes have been purchased and
fixed in various parts of Streatham High Road and
Balham High Road.
The charges for reinstating trenches made for gas,
water, and telegraph purposes during the year amounted
to £808 5s. 7d.
Repairs have been effected to the paving, kerbing,
crossings, channels, wood-paving, and tar-paving in
various parts of the parish, at a cost of £957 6s. lOd.
The materials used in the above works (not including
the wood paving in Streatham High Road) were: 1,655
feet granite kerb; 5,695 new wood blocks; 10,856 yards
tar-paving; 6,986 yards of re-topping; 1,331 yards of
running and shelling; 830 yards of new Victoria paving;
12 feet of new York paving; 224 yards of new