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Wandsworth 1898

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

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£ s. d.
Brought forward 3,231 0 0
Clapham Park Road.— For laying similar wood
paving to that laid in Clapham Road, extending
from Bedford Road to the southern entrance
to Park Crescent:—
3,316 yards super, at 10s.
per yard £1,658 0 0
850 feet lineal 12-inch by
8-inch granite kerb, and
re-laying York stone and
tar-paving 1110 0
1,769 0 0
Total £5,000 0 0
Improvements. Two projecting forecourts at the west corner
of Union Road, Nos. 459 and 461, Wandsworth
Road, have been set back 5-feet to the general
line, thereby throwing 240-feet super. into the public
way. The cost of setting back and rebuilding the
fences was £12, and the cost of paving with York stone
(240-feet super.) £11.
Rectory Estate. The York paving on the west side of
Wirtemberg Street has been extended on the
portion as widened (230-feet super. 2½-inch York
paving) at a cost of £11; and in Bromell's Road (also
widened), 80-yards super. tar-paving and 900-feet super.
2½-inch York paving have been laid at a cost of £53.
Cedars Road. The footpaths at the entrance from Wandsworth
Road have been set back and the paving
relaid, to admit of the underground convenience being
placed in the centre of the roadway. The cost of kerbing,
channelling, and relaying tar and York paving was £76.
Park Hiii A new crossing has been paved with 4½-inch
Jarrah-wood blocks on 6 inches of concrete
(42-yards super.) at a cost of £36.
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