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Omnibus
Stands,
Clapham.
Owing to numerous complaints of the stands opposite the
Alexandra Hotel and in Venn Street, the Council has
paved both with old granite setts at a cost of £82 8s.
Public Bnths,
High Street.
Wands, worth.
A new entrance to the gallery in the First Class Swimming Bath
has been provided at a cost of £27 14s. 10d.
Public
Libraries.
At Clapham Library the upstairs room has been converted into a
reference library with new shelving, office for attendant,
and re-lighted at a cost of £112 18s.
In the reading room the Wenham lighting was found very defective,
and on making a closer examination it was found that the premises
were in danger of taking fire and that the girders were deteriorating.
It was therefore decided to re-light and ventilate this room and to
renew the covering of several of the beams. This was done at a cost
of £175 7s 6d.
The new wrought-iron fencing erected at West Hill Library in
connection with the West Hill Improvement has been extended for
about 46-ft. in Santos Road at a cost of £57 13s. 4d.
The passages on the outside of the Newnes' Public Library,
Putney, have been tar-paved at a cost of £30 17s. 5d.
PutneyBridge
Bo ad.
In connection with the widening of the road, the fence on the
south side belonging to the London and South Western
Railway Company between the railway bridge and a
point near Fawe Park Road has been set back, a new retaining wall
built, and a telephone post shifted at a cost of £98 13s. 11d.
Bed Lion
Street.
The kerb has been taken up, jointed and re-laid on cement concrete,
and the footpaths re-paved with Old York paving between
York Road and North Street, at a cost of £110 7s. 5d.
Beplingbam Road.
A strip of land about 6-ft. 6-in. in width given up by the owner
of Nos. 34, 36, 38 and 40, on being allowed by the
London County Council to bring the shop fronts,
beyond the building line, has been added to the public path and paved
with artificial paving at a cost of £19 11s. 2d.
River
Street.
A strip of land about 250-ft. in length and 3-ft. 2-111. in width,
has been given up on the east side by the owner
of Kenilworth Court. A footpath has been formed,
kerbed and paved with artificial paving and Scoriae block channelling,
laid at a cost of £71 4s. 6d.