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carrying out into the external air fine coal siftings—small coal
sittings or screening being supplied at that time (so it was
reported) to the works for burning after dark or at dusk. The
Company was communicated with, and the nuisance ceased.
No further action was therefore necessary, but the details show
the danger of a nuisance arising at any time, unless strict care
in the management of the furnaces is at all times enforced—
Welsh steam coal only being used as fuel.
The Company denied that any coal siftings or screenings were
used at the time of the complaints, though there could be no
doubt as to the "greasy blacks," which, it was stated, were found
to be issuing from the chimney.
4.—Messrs. Hammerton's Brewery, Lingham Street, Stockwell.
A memorial, signed by 51 owners and householders living in
Kimberley and Kay Roads, and in the immediate neighbourhood,
has been received during 1904,drawing attention to the "continual
nuisance and inconvenience arising from the smoke and fumes
of sulphur emitted from the shaft of Messrs. Hammerton's
Brewery, Lingham Street, Stockwell, a nuisance which is (the
memorialists allege) both detrimental to health and property."
The complaint of the memorialists could not be substantiated
by the Council's officials.
5.—Ballast Burning at Gipsy Road.
An anonymous letter of complaint was received during 1904
(September) from the Gipsy Road Constitutional Club, drawing
attention to a large ballast fire, burning in the Gipsy Road. On
making enquiries it was found that the fire was lighted on
September 29th on a large plot of land for the purpose of burning
clean clay dug out of the footings from the two new houses
being erected on the land, such clean clay being mixed with
coal, and not with house refuse in any shape or form. A screen
was found to have been erected so as to hide the ballast fire from
the road—the nearest house, which is directly opposite, being
100 feet away, and the Gipsy Road Constitutional Club being