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should be taken to commemorate the same in the District
and on its recommendation your Board resolved to erect a
Drinking Fountain in New Oxford Street at its junction
with Shaftesbury Avenue. Various designs for the same
were submitted by your Engineer, and considered by the
Committee, who ultimately adopted one consisting of
Corrennie and Rubslaw granite, grey and red in colour.
The contract for the same was intrusted to Mr. John
Fyfe, of Aberdeen, and the work of erection completed and
the Fountain opened to public use, on the 14th December
last.
Kiosks.
Application was made to your Board on the 15th May,
1897, by the Streets Syndicate, Limited, for permission to
erect on the public way, on sites to be selected by the
Board, certain kiosks, for advertising and telephonic
purposes. Your Board, after considerable discussion,
consented to the erection of the kiosks at the following
situations:—
High Holborn, South side, opposite No. 250.
Refuge, North end of Shaftesbury Avenue, at its junction with
New Oxford Street.
High Street, at its junction with New Oxford Street.
After their erection, the one in Shaftesbury Avenue was
considered by your Board to be on several grounds in so
unsuitable a position, that the Syndicate were requested to
remove it to another site—that ultimately chosen being on
the wide piece of footway on the south side of New Oxford
Street, opposite the New West Central Post Office, recently
erected in Hyde Street,