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PAVING WORKS, IMPROVEMENTS, &c.
PARISH OF CLAPHAM.
Paving New
Streets.
The portion, of Kingswood Road between
Chale Road and New Park Road, and
Shandon Road, between Klea Avenue and Abbeville
Road, have been paved and adopted by the Board. The
total estimated cost was £1,352 19s. 8d., all payable by
the owners of adjoining property. The work executed
included 1,780 yards super. tar-paving; 18 yards super.
Staffordshire blue brick paving on concrete; 374 yards
super. 5-inch by 6-inch granite channelling on six inches
of concrete; and 2,400 feet lineal 12-inch by 8-inch
granite kerb. The roads were made up with 140 cubic
yards hard core, 250 cubic yards coarse gravel, and 400
cubic yards flints, and consolidated by rolling with the
steam roller.
Wandsworth Road
Widening.
This work has been completed and extends
from the L.C. & D. railway station to Rozel
Road, a length of 385 yards. The South London Tramways
Company have relaid their line with two lines of
rails, and have repaved the tramway tracks with granite
and the centre between the rails partly with hard wood
and partly with pitch pine blocks. The mains of the
South Metropolitan Gas Company have been removed