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Sewers Works (which have been in operation in almost
every road and street within the parish during the
past four or five years) are now nearly completed;
these disturbing causes will not recur, and therefore
the consequent repairs due to such works will not have
to be repeated. It is therefore hoped that the present
reduced expenditure of material will be maintained in
future years,
Improvements'
Your Committee refer the Vestry to the recent
widening of the thoroughfare of Havil-street, and also
to the completion of the arrangements for the re-construction
of Taylor's Bridge, crossing the Grand Surrey
Canal. These improvements will commend themselves
to the Ratepayers in general.
Open Spaces.
The Parishioners and the public having so
thoroughly appreciated the efforts of the Vestry some
few years since in securing Camberwell-green, and
laying it out for the use and enjoyment of the public,
it was thought desirable, with the same object, to negotiate
with the Lord of the Manor for the purchase of
his manorial rights of the Open Spaces known as Peckham-rye,
Goose-green, and Nun-green, in order that
these valuable free and open spaces might be for ever