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Name of Road or Street. Length in yards Name of Road or Street. Length yards.
Nine Elms Lane 800 Brought forward 16,000
Battersea Park Road 2,940 Clapham Common,
York Road 1,170 North Side 1,300
New Road 780 Battersea Rise 670
Victoria Road 860 Northcote Road 560
Queen's Road 1,220 St. John's Road 350
Albert Road 1,050 Bolingbroke Grove 1,520
Bridge Road 1,070 Nightingale Lane 1,360
Bridge Road West 560 St. James' Road 860
Surrey Lane 500 Bellevue Road 500
High Street 700 Road across Clapham
Castle Street 530 Common 1,500
Falcon Road 830 Sisters Avenue 440
Lavender Road 680 Latchmere Road 970
Lavender Hill 1,260 Plough Road 750
St. John's Hill 1,050
TOTAL 26,780
Carried forward 16,000
26,780 yards = 15¼ miles
Electric
Lighting.
On the 28th June notices were received from
Messrs. Bircham & Co., on behalf of the Metropolitan
Electric Supply Company, Limited, and from Messrs.
Wyatt & Co., on behalf of the House to House Electric Light
Supply Company, Limited, of intention to apply, under
the Electric Lighting Acts, 1882 and 1888, for Provisional
Orders for power to supply electricity for lighting and other
purposes in certain streets within the Parish, but these applications
were not proceeded with.
The London Electric Supply Corporation, however, made
an application under the above mentioned Acts, but the Vestry
opposed the granting of the Provisional Order, inasmuch as it
appeared that the Corporation did not propose to include the
whole of the Parish within their area of supply, but sought the
necessary powers merely with a view to the erection of a
generating station for the supply of electrical energy to other
portions of the Metropolis ; that the necessary notice, that the
Provisional Order had been, or was intended to be applied for,