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Tar-spraying.
Thornsett
Road.
Tooting Bee
Road.
Tooting Bee
Common.
Tooting Grove.
Tooting High
Street.
The following roads have been tar-sprayed by Taroads, Ltd.,.
the cost being as under, viz.:—
£ s. d.
Disraeli Road, Putney, from High Street to
Oxford Road 9 5 8
Embankment, Putney, from Putney Bridge
Approach to Borough boundary 30 18 10
Huguenot Place, Wandsworth, from East
Hill to Wood well Road 7 2 6
Kingston Road, Putney, from West Hill to
Borough boundary 95 8 2
Roehampton Lane, Putney, from Alton Road
to High Street 11 4 0
The kerb has been taken up and re-laid and new scoriae-block
channel laid on cement concrete on the north and,
south sides from Garratt Lane to the end of the
road, at a cost of £114 6s. 2d.
The total cost of this widening, including purchase of property
opposite the Stapleton House estate, up to
the 31st March, amounted to £2,015 4s. 6d., but
there is still a small strip of land to be paved in Upper Tooting
Road. This will be paved at an early date after the removal of
the fence wall by the freeholder.
An improvement has been effected near the junction of
Ambleside Avenue with Tooting Bec Road and
Garrads Road.
A small wedge-shaped portion of the Common has been surrendered
to the carriageway, making the locality much safer.
The total cost of the work amounted to £31 16s. 6d.
Old granite sett channel has been laid on cement concrete on
the north and south sides from Tooting High
Street to Effort Street, at a cost of £51 15s. 7d.
The widening of Tooting High Street has now been completed
and the tramways extended from near Garratt
Lane to the County boundary at Waterfall.