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Communication
between
the Queen's
Road, the
Beaufoy,
the Shaftesbury
Park,
and the
Latchmere
Grove
Estates.
The Vestry on the 8th May appointed a Special
Committee consisting of twelve members to consider
and report as to the best means of establishing communication
between the Queen's Road, the Beaufoy,
the Shaftesbury Park, and the Latchmere Grove
Estates; but at the close of the period covered by
this Report the Committee had not come to a final
conclusion upon the reference.
Culvert
Road
Archway.
On the 7th March, 1889, the Vestry received a
communication from the Coroner for Westminster to
the effect that a lad named T. Cutting had recently died in St.
George's Hospital from injuries received by being crushed
between the wall of the railway arch in Culvert Road and a
passing vehicle. The subject of this narrow and dangerous
archway had been on several occasions before the Vestry and as
a temporary measure the Vestry ordered on the 10th April that
the footpath on the western side of the railway arches be
abolished, the existing kerb be placed close to the walls of the
arch, and a slope formed thereon in cement to prevent the same
being used by the public, and that the footpath on the eastern
side of the roadway passing under the arches be widened as far
as possible, after allowing for a sufficient width for vehicular
traffic ; and with a view to prevent further accidents to persons
passing under the arch, that the Railway Companies should be
requested to give their consent to the formation of a subway, or to
construct the same on the eastern side of the archway in question
for the use of foot-passengers, the work to be carried out at the
cost of the Vestry. Communications were addressed to the
London, Brighton and South Coast and the London and South
Western Railway Companies accordingly, and on the 19th
November a letter was received from the London and South
Western Railway Company in reply, to the effect that certain
widenings of the railway were contemplated in Battersea which
might affect Culvert Road and for which the necessary powers
would be sought in the ensuing Session of Parliament, and that in
view of this they were not able to give the proposal any further