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Wandsworth 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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Red Lion Street. New 12-inch by 8-inch kerbing and old redressed
York paving have been laid on the footpath on
the south side of Red Lion Street, between Orchard
Street and North Street, at a cost of £30 9s. 8d.
Upper Richmond
Road.
An Improvement has been effected in Upper
Richmond Road by the setting back of the fence on the
south side, between No. 13 and "The Lady Close."
A sum of £50 was paid by the Board to Mr. Leuchars in
respect of the piece of land given up for the widening;
the cost of setting back the fence and the necessary
paving works amounted to £5 17s. 3d.
Wandsworth Common,
West Side.
A considerable improvement has been made
by the widening of Wandsworth Common, West Side,
between North Side and Trefoil Road. The land on the
west side was given up, under an agreement with the
authorities of Magdalen College, Oxford, and the London
County Council have recently given up sufficient land on
the east or common side to make the road 50-feet in
width. The total cost of kerbing, channelling, constructing
three gullies, and forming and gravelling the
footpath on the west side amounted to £228 12s. 7d. This
does not include the sum of £26 10s. 5d. paid by the
owners for kerbing aud tar-paving the footpath in front of
the houses extending from about 95-feet north of Trefoil
Road.
York Road
York Road The kerbing on the north side of York Road,
between the railway bridge and Warple Way, has been
taken up and re-laid on concrete, and the York paving
has been taken up, re-dressed, re-squared, and re-laid, at
a cost of £99 10s. 1d. The kerbing on the south
side, between North Street and Edgel Street, has been
taken up and re-laid on concrete, and the York paving
taken up, re-dressed, re-squared, and re-laid, at a cost of
£38 16s. 2d. New 6-inch by 4-inch granite channelling
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