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Street Improvements—Little Guilford Street and
Little Coram Street.
On the 28th July last, the Board received a communication
from the Bedford Office to the effect that the leases
of the houses on the west side of Little Guilford Street
and Little Coram Street, being about to expire, the Duke
of Bedford intended pulling down the property, as also the
houses in Abbey Place, Tavistock Mews, and Woburn
Mews at the rear, and, conditional on the Board paving,
sewering, and lighting the same, the Duke would give up
so much of the land as would widen the streets to 40 feet.
The Board agreed to the proposals of the Duke, and the
property has since been demolished, and contracts have
been entered into by your Board for the necessary paving
works. The work of widening the streets and paving
them will be commenced shortly.
This will effect a very great improvement in this
portion of the District, cul de sacs in which ventilation was
restricted, and a considerable area of old property which
in its arrangement and conditions was far from sanitary,
being done away with. The two above-named streets, with
Colonnade Mews, which is also being widened on its western
side by the Duke of Bedford, will form one continuous line
of thoroughfare from Guilford Street to Tavistock Place,
which has, with the consent of the London County Council,
been renamed Herbrand Street.
Queen's Jubilee.
The year 1897, forming the completion of the 60th
year's reign of Her Majesty the Queen Victoria, the Board
appointed a special Committee to consider what steps