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Conyers Road and the sewer therein, also part of the
footpath across the railway from Conyers Road to
Eardley Road have been diverted and a new viaduct to
connect the main line with the Sutton and Peckham
line is in course of construction.
Messrs. R. and E. Evans' tender, amounting to £659,
for the erection of a mortuary at the parish yard,
Streatliam, has been accepted, and the work will shortly
be commenced.
The charges for reinstating trenches made for gas,
water, and telegraph purposes during the year amounted
to £391 l1s. 1d.
A 10-ton steam roller has been used in the repairing
of parish roads for 165½ days at a cost of £372 7s. 6d.,
and in the making up and paving of new roads and
consolidating trenches for 59½ days at a cost of
£133 6s. 3d., and for improvements 12½ days at a cost
of £28 2s. 6d.
The following are the new roads which have been
paved and adopted during the year, viz.: Leverson
Street, Elmfield Road, portion of Conyers Road, and
the second portion of Boundaries Road—total length,
4 furlongs 133 yards.
The estimated cost of making up and paving these
new roads under the annual contracts of the Board
amounted to £2,128 2s. 9d., and the materials used in
the work included 4,395 feet of new granite kerb;
828 super yards of paved channel and crossings; 4,479
super yards of tar paving; 1,676 cubic yards of gravel
and flints; and the refixing of 1,466 feet of old kerb.
On the south-west side of Bedford Hill new 12 inch
by 6 inch kerb has been laid to the footpath at a cost
of £86.