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Tavistock Mews, Bedford Square.
This Mews, which runs at the rear of the bouses on the West side
of Bedford Square, has recently been closed up, and the ground is in
course of being built on. In lieu of it, the Duke of Bedford has
constructed and opened a new street, adjoining to and parallel
therewith, extending from Bedford Street to Tavistock Street.
When the buildings on the West side are erected, it will form a great
improvement in the locality.
Church Lane.
The dwellings in this street, which were of the worst description,
and very densely inhabited by the low class of Irish, and were structurally
altered and improved under orders made by virtue of the Artisans
and Labourers' Dwellings Act, 1868, have recently been pulled down,
and part of the sites thereof laid into the street for the purpose of
widening the same.
Renaming and Renumbering Streets.
The Metropolitan Board of Works have, under the powers vpsted in
them by the Metropolis Management Act, 18 & 19 Vic. cap. 120, renamed
the following streets in the District, viz.:
Name. Renamed.
King Street (Drury Lane) Shelton Street
King Street (Long Acre) Neal Street
Alfred Street Huntley Street
Princes Street (Lincoln's Inn Fields) Gate Street
Hanover Street Endell Street
Colonnade Mews Colonnade
Hampshire Hog Yard Clark's Mews
And have ordered the houses to be renumbered; as also those in Parker
Street, Drury Lane.
North Metropolitan Tramways Bill, 1877.
By their Parliamentary notices and plans, this Company, in November
last, announced its intention to bring in a Bill to extend its tramways
in the Metropolis, and among several routes it proposed to lay
down rails along the new street now in course of formation by the Metropolitan
Board of Works, from Old Street to Vernon Place, and thence
across Bloomsbury Square and Hart Street, to Bury Place. This Board
refused to consent to the application, on the grounds that it would
injuriously affect the property in the streets along which the tramways
would pass, and tend to drive away the present residents, thus deteriorating
the value of the property and spoiling the neighbourhood;
moreover, the Act 46 Geo. 3, cap. 134, for ornamenting and