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A 10 ton steam roller has been used in the repairing
of parish roads for 139½ days at a cost of £313 17s. 6d.,
and in the making up and paving of new roads and
consolidating trenches for 60¾ days at a cost of £136
13s. 9d.
The following are the new roads which have been
paved and adopted during the year, viz.:—Harberson
Road, Hambro Road, Croxted Road, Dalmore Road,
Babington Road, Beechcroft Road, Foulser Road,
Dafforne Road, Inverleith Avenue, Riggindale Road,
Larch Road, and Romberg Road; total length 1 mile,
6 furlongs, 206 yards.
The estimated cost of making up and paving these
new roads under the annual contracts of the Board,
amounted to about £6,719 15s. 2d., and the materials
used in this work included 15,498 feet of new granite
kerb, 2,410 super yards of paved channel and crossings,
15,089 super yards of tar-paving, 4,822 cubic yards of
gravel and flints, and the refixing of 4,030 feet of old
kerb.
On Brixton Hill and Streatham Hill the paving of the
roadway between the tram rails has been done by the
London Tramways Company, with 3" × 6" granite setts,
and the margins between the rails and the kerb, average
width about 10 feet 8 inches, have been paved by the
Board with 3" x 9" x 6" deal blocks laid upon 6" of Portland
cement concrete; thus 2,687 super yards of wood
pavement were laid by Messrs. Turner, Son & Evanson,
at a cost of £1,141 16s. 8d., and £24 7s. 8d. for Clerk
of Works, total cost £1,166 4s. 4d.; towards which the
Tramways Company paid £215 1s. 2d. for paving a
width of 2 feet on each side of their tramways.