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Engineer and the Assistant Engineer respectively, the
offices vacated by the Engineer and the Assistant
Engineer being transferred to the Clerks. The middle
entrance doorway has been bricked up and the existing
wooden staircase removed, new concrete stairs over the
existing entrance having been built, the space under the
new stairs made into an additional strong room, a
passageway under this new staircase being provided to
give access to an additional Clerk's office. The office
formerly occupied by the Station Superintendent is now
used as the Chief Meter Inspector's office. On the First
Floor Level, the position of the new staircase allowed
of the offices being partitioned off, thus giving separate
rooms to the Distributing Engineer and to the service
men. All the new partitions are patent concrete
partitions.
A lodge has been erected, as it was found necessary
to have an office at the entrance to the approach road
to the electricity works, the object being to provide a
proper place for booking materials in and out, and for
preventing unauthorised persons gaining access to the
works.
Tenders were invited for executing the above work,
and that of Messrs. F. and G. Foster, of South Norwood,
was accepted, in the sum of £1,607.
The work is nearing completion.
DEPOT.
In consequence of the acquisition of a portion of
the Great Church Lane Depot by the District Railway
. Company for the purpose of widening their line at
Hammersmith Station, the boundary wall has been pulled
down and a new wall built. Part of the Superintendent's
residence and the yard adjoining has been underpinned
and supported on girders, part of the yard extending over
the station and forming the roof.