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with respect to the same, the paving and maintenance of
the land in question being, under the conditions of their
Leases, thrown upon the Lessees of the premises in the
Mews fronting the same.
Your Board on the application of the London Hydraulic
Power Company, sanctioned the laying of new Hydraulic
mains in Bucknall Street, and the extension of existing
mains in Great Russell Street and Bloomsbury Street.
J he garden seats which were presented to the Board by
the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, and were
placed on the triangular piece of land in the Shaftesbury
Avenue, were, on complaint of the surrounding inhabitants,
that they were made most objectionable use of, removed
and iron benches without backs substituted, and
other seats presented to the Board by the Association,
which were placed in North and South Cre3cents, were also
on a petition of the surrounding inhabitants removed—the
seats were subsequently placed in St. Giles Churchyard.
Street Nomenclature.
The following streets have, under order of the London
County Council, been re-named as under:—
Red Lion Yard, Southampton Row re-named Redcar Yard.
Kings Arms Yard, Silver Street do. Monarch Yard.
Market Street do. Barter Street.
Charlotte Street do. Bloomsbury Street.
Brunswick Mews do. Calsen Yard.
Brewer Street (south of New
Oxford Street) do. Hyde Street.
Duke Street (north of New Oxford
Street) do. Coptic Street.