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resulted in utter failures, and had to be removed. The Val de Travers
Asphalte is laid down in Cheapside and Holborn, and Wood Paving
on Ludgate Hill, and the Strand. The costs of these Pavements are
respectively 16s. and 17s. per yard, and exceed the cost of Granite
by 3s. and 4s. per yard. The annual cost of repair of that in
Holborn, about 8,300 square yards, is £200 per annum. The
Asphalte Pavement, as appears by the Report of the City Surveyor,
is productive of a larger number of accidents. It is very expensive
to keep in repair. The Wood Pavement has not been laid down
a sufficiently long period to test its durability and usefulness; and
under these circumstances, I have not been able to recommend the
adoption by the Board of any other description of Pavement than
that now in use in this District. I am very desirous that the Board
should avail themselves of all beneficial improvements from time to
time as they arise.
FOOTWAY PAYING.
The following Streets have been repaired with new 3-inch
Yorkshire Paving and Curb, namely:—
Bury Place £74 15 3
Little Queen Street 78 1 7
At a cost of £152 16 10
The following Streets and Mews in the District are paved with
Pebbles, and are to be repaired and paved with Guernsey Granite as
circumstances permit, namely:—
Alfred Mews
Bedford Head Yard (Southampton
Row)
Bernard Mews
Chapel Place (Duke Street, Lincoln's
Inn Fields)
Colonnade Mews
Caroline Mews
Chenieb Mews
Charlotte Mews
George Yard (Little Queem Street)
Gower Mews
Hunter Mews
Henrietta Mews
King's Arms Yard (Silver Street)
King's Arms Yard (Coal Yard)
King's Arms Yard (Duke Street, Lincoln's
Inn Fields)
King's Head Yard (Duke Street,
Bloomsbury)
Little Britain
Montague Mews (Upper)
New Yard (Great Queen Street)
Pied Bull Yard
Queen's Head Yard (Great Queen
Street)
Red Lion Yard (Part)
Russell Mews (Part)
Torrington Mews East
Torrington Mews (Part)
Woburn Mews East
Woburn Mews West
Sewers Works.
New Sewers have been constructed in the following Streets:—
Bedford street, Tavistock street, Caroline street, and Little Earl
street, at a cost of £987 10s. 11d.
W. J. TREHEARNE,
Surveyor.