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Wandsworth 1896

Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1896

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62
North Side
Wandsworth
Common.
By arrangement with the London County
Council, a strip of the Common varying from
2 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 9 inches in width was given up
to the Board for widening the road between West Side
and St. Ann's Road. A footpath has been formed,
kerbed, and tar-paved, the carriageway widened, and
channelling laid between West Side and Spencer Park,
at a cost of £318 lis. 4d.
Trinity Road.
The railway bridge has been widened from
its former width of 20 feet 8 inches to 40 feet by the
L. & S.W. Railway Company under an agreement with
the London County Council. The estimated cost is
£3,485 5s. 4d.; two-thirds of the cost is to be paid by
the Council and one-third by the Board. The carriageway
between the railway bridge and the Surrey Tavein
has been scarified and a foundation of hard core and
flints constructed, at a cost of £555, or 1s. 0¾d. per super.
yard. Two granite sett crossings have been laid, one
opposite Bellevue Road and the other opposite Dorlcote
Road, at a cost of £34 18s. 11d. The footpath on the
west side abutting on the common, between No, 261 and
Burntwood Lane, has been tar-paved for a width of 7 feet
and circular kerb laid at the corner of Burntwood Lane,
at a cost of £97 4s. 3d.
Upper Richmond
Road.
The kerbing on the north side, between
Schubert Road and Oakhill Road, has been
taken up, jointed, and relaid on concrete, the tar-paving
removed and York paving laid in lieu thereof at a cost of
£526 1s. The carriageway between Galveston Road and
No. 9, Upper Richmond Road was scarified and a foundation
of hard core and flints constructed at a cost of
£73 4s. Id., or Is. 2d. per super, yard.
Wandsworth
Common,
West Side.
The London County Council having agreed to
give up sufficient land on the east side to
widen the roadway to 50 feet between Hugue-