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to the Cleansing Committee in November, 1945, that tipping had been
carried out almost to the limit at Cannon Lane unless the Yeading Brook
was culverted; at the Wealdstone tip it is proposed to tip over most of
the former sewage works, and arrangements were being made to start
tipping on 14 acres at Old Redding.
During the war years salvaging of materials essential to industry was
carried out on quite a large scale.
Street Cleansing.
The pre-war practice was for the main roads and shopping centres
to be cleaned twice daily, the main district roads once daily and the
general district roads three times a week; cul de sacs twice weekly and
private streets once a week. The sweepings collected in orderly barrows
were disposed of at the tips. The lengths of highways repairable by the
public are the County roads, 34 miles, and the district roads, 198 miles
PUBLIC CONVENIENCES.
Apart from those in the Recreation Grounds, public conveniences
have been sited at Northolt Road, Havelock Place, the Car Park at Station
Road, Pinner Road, at North Harrow and Peel Road. Because of the
use made by the public of the urinal at the Red Lion Public House, the
Council agreed to be responsible for its cleansing. In consideration of
a lump sum payment by the Council the convenience provided and
maintained by the London Passenger Transport Board at South Harrow
Station is available to the public. Arrangements were in train for
conveniences to be provided in many more of the Recreation Grounds,
but the onset of the war interfered with this programme and with the
erection of a new convenience in Whitchurch Lane. Conveniences are
required in many parts of the district, but none perhaps more urgently
than to serve the Kenton shopping area or Pinner Village.
BURIAL GROUNDS.
The Council, under the provisions of Section 46 of the MiddlesexReview
Order, 1934, became the burial authority for the district and has
control of the following burial grounds or cemeteries:—Paines Lane and
Roxeth Hill (both full except for re-openings), Pinner Road, Byron Road,
Eastcote Lane, Pinner Cemetery, and Harrow Weald. The acreage unused
is about 24, sufficient to last at the present rate for about forty years.
There is, apart from re-openings, little available at the grounds under the
control of the Church authorities, namely Harrow, Roxeth, Pinner,
Harrow Weald, Great Stanmore and Whitchurch.
In 1935, consideration was given to the question of the erection in
the district of a crematorium. In 1944, the Council accepted the proposal
and a site was agreed on.