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The contribution is conditional on the inner circle of
railways being completed, and on the City Commissioners of
Sewers contributing £130,000 towards the cost of widening
Fenchurch Street.
In connection with City Improvements, the Vestry
applied to the Board for a return of the sums contributed
by the City of London to the funds of the Board since its
formation, and of the sums expended by the Board for
improvements in the City of London during the same
period, including sums voted but not yet paid.
A copy of this return is printed in Appendix No. 5.
Protection from High Tide.
It will be in the remembrance of the ratepayers that an
exceptionally high tide took place in March 1874, when the
water overflowed a portion of the Grosvenor-road, in this
Parish. The Vestry, having communicated with several
authorities owning the river wall, with a view to the same
being heightened, found considerable difficulty in getting
their wishes in this respect, carried out, and, looking to the
importance of due protection from flood being afforded to the
persons and property in the low-lying district of the Parish,
they, after much deliberation, determined that the crown of
the roadway of Grosvenor-road, from St. George's-square
to Messrs. Simpson's Factory, be raised one foot above the
highest flood level; and that the footways and crossings
adjoining, be altered to suit the proposed elevation of the
roadway, at an estimated cost of £350.
As the Duke of Westminster, the freeholder, and the
War Office, the renters of the Army Clothing Stores in
Grosvenor-road, were largely interested in the work, the
Vestry asked them to contribute toward the cost. The
Duke of Westminster contributed £100; the Secretary of
State for War declined to contribute.