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The rebuilding of the Castle public-house has been carried
out and an agreement entered into with the freeholder by which he
agreed to give sufficient frontage land to widen High Street to 60
feet if the Council would continue the widening to Defoe Road.
Negotiations for the acquisition of this intervening property
were commenced, but owing to the large number of interests involved
the progress made has necessartly been slow.
The arrangements are now practically complete with the
exception of the legal formalities.
The new Castle public-house is already erected and the
widened portion of the High Street has been temporarily paved at
a cost £46 : 17 : 0.
In conjunction with the making up of the north
Totterdown. side of Totterdown as a new street, the footpath on
the south side has been kerbed and paved and the roadway channelled
and repaired at an approximate cost of £135.
Town Hall.
Most of the rooms at the Town Hall were
cleansed, painted and papered where necessary, and
the outside of the building painted under contract by
Messrs. E. Parsons & Co. at a cost of £135 : 0 : 4.
Upper Richmond
Road at
the Crescent.
A width of five feet was given up by the owners
of the forecourts between No. 123 and The Crescent,
to widen the public path on condition that the
step at the back of the old path was abolished, and
the whole of the forecourt paved with non-slip paving at the expense
of the Council. This work has been carried out at a cost of £109 : 2 : 8.
Upper Richmond
Road.
The footpath on the south side from Roehampton
Lane to Priory Lane has been kerbed and 12 new
gullies fixed at a cost of £251 : 16 : 5.
The bank on the south side from Priory Lane to Priests'
Bridge has been removed and the carriage way widened at a cost of
£254 : 4 : 11.