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hood which was becoming very populous, that he proposed to lay
the land out as a recreation ground, with a gymnasium for the
young and seats for the old, and to hand it over to the Council as a
Coronation Gift, if the Council would undertake its maintenance
as an open space for ever ; and that his sisters desired to add the
gift of a drinking fountain for the ground. The offer was accepted
by the Council and a vote of thanks to the Mayor and his sisters
for their gifts to the Borough was unanimously passed. The
ground, which it has been decided to call Coronation Gardens, has
been laid out by the donor as an ornamental public garden and a
number of seats have been provided. The Gardens were formally
declared open to the public for ever by the present Mayor (Councillor
Wm. Hunt, J.P.) on the 4th July, 1903, and were taken in
charge by the Open Spaces Sub-Committee of the Highways,
Sewers, and Lighting Committee on behalf of the Council. The
neighbourhood, which is being rapidly built over, is one where open
spaces are very much needed and the Council desires to record its
appreciation of Councillor Lancaster's gift, which will be highly
prized by the inhabitants of «the Borough at large.
Leader's
Gardens.
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81.—The work of laying out Leader's Gardens, Putney
Embankment, has been completed, and the Gardens
were formally declared open to the public for ever on
the same day as Coronation Gardens.
Roads on
Boundary of
Borough.
82.—The Order referred to in last year's report respectingthe
roads on the boundary of the Boroughs of Wandsworth
and Lambeth has now been issued by the
London County Council. The Order places under
the exclusive management of the respective Councils for the purposes
of paving, lighting, watering, cleansing, sewerage, and
drainage the following streets situate partly in this Borough and
partly in the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth, viz.: —