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The work of substituting the new improved circular
street lamps for those of the old square pattern, was
proceeded with during the year. The total number of
those lamp-posts and lanterns erected in the District at
Lady Day, 1882, was 403.
Street Refuges.
One additional street crossing refuge was formed at the
north end of High Street.
There are now seventeen of these refuges in the St.
Giles District, viz:—
High Holborn
Do.
New Oxford Street
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Tottenham Ct. Rd.
High Street
Endell Street
Broad Street
Do.
Do.
Bloomsbury Street
Theobald's Road
Do.
Guildford Street
By Little Queen Street
At Junction with New Oxford Street
East of its Junction with Bloomsbury St.
West of do. do. do.
By Hart Street
By Thorney Street
West end, by Tottenham Court Road
South end, by New Oxford Street
North end, by New Oxford Street
North end, by Broad Street
West of Endell Street
East of do.
By Drinking Fountain
South end, by Broad Street
West end, by Southampton Row
Opposite Orange Street
West end, by Russell Square.
They are all well lighted, and afford great assistance
to pedestrians in crossing the carriage-ways.