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New Kent Road. The portions of the roadway between the channels
and the tram margins being considerably worn, the Vestry
have relaid the same.
Upper Grange Road. Petitions have from time to time been
presented to the Vestry, asking that, as the traffic from the
Tower Bridge had largely increased and the noise thereby
created had been considerably augmented, the roadway within
the Parish might be paved with wood. The roadway needing
considerable repair, an opportunity occurred for the Vestry
to comply with these requests. The Vestry of Camberwell
agreed, on this Vestry consenting to execute the work, to
contribute ,£180 towards the cost. This arrangement was
agreed to by the Vestry on the 9th March, 1897, and the
work will shortly be proceeded with.
Old Kent
Road
Footway.
Application having been made by Messrs. Battley Sons
& Holness, the builders who were erecting Mr. Goodrich's
new premises at the corner of the Old Kent Road and
Bermondsey New Road, for the footpath adjoining the Old Kent
Road side of the premises to be lowered, the Vestry instructed the
Surveyor on the 16th June, 1896, to bring up a report, together
with plan and estimate, for lowering the footpath and substituting a
single curb for the present double one. It was subsequently ascertained
that other persons having premises abutting on the raised
footway objected to the footway being lowered; and after careful
consideration of the matter by the Works Committee, the Vestry
finally determined on the 22nd September, 1896, to take no further
action with regard to the proposed improvement.
Underground
Telephone
Wires.
The National Telephone Company Limited, having
made application for permission to lay underground mains
along some of the principal roadways in the Parish, the
question was referred to the Works Committee. On the 28th July,
181)6, the Vestry, on the recommendation of the Committee, agreed
that they would be prepared to consent to the Company laying their
mains underground subject to their entering into an agreemeut
embodying certain stipulations as to superintendence of work,