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SURVEYOR'S REPORT
OF WORKS EXECUTED,
PROM LADY-DAY, 1872, TO LADY-DAY, 1873.
Gentlemen,
I do not consider it necessary to recapitulate remarks which
have appeared in my previous Annual Reports. The importance of the
works performed, and the reason for the performance of such works, are
now so fully understood and appreciated, that a bare description of the
works performed is all that I now deem necessary.
The most important works have been carried out at the expense of the
North Metropolitan Tramways Company in Grove Road, Cambridge Road,
and Hackney Road.
In Grove Road the whole macadamized surface of the carriageway has
been broken up, between the boundary at the Railway Arch and the
junction of Grove Road with the Old Ford Road, a length of 773 yards ;
5539 yards super of new carriageway paving has been laid on the above.
In Cambridge Road, between the junction of Whitechapel Road and
the boundary near the Canal Bridge, the macadamized surface, to the
extent of 9025 yards super, has been broken up and paved with new
carriageway stone. A portion of this length is incomplete, viz., the
narrow part in Patriot Row and the south end to connect with Whitechapel
Road.
In Hackney Road, which was paved by the Vestry nearly five years
ago, it is intended to lay down a tramway, which will involve the removal
and relaying of the carriageway paving between the junction of Hackney
Road with Cambridge Road, and an agreed transverse boundary line at
"Weymouth Terrace, This work is now progressing.