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did not warrant the establishment of a Telegraph Office in Bishop'sroad.
An application for permission to place a Cabmen's Shelter at the
cab stand near the "Salmon and Ball" was considered. Objections
were made by the inhabitants of some of the houses near, and after
inquiries by the Works Committee, the Vestry decided not to accede
to the application.
The Vestry represented to the Metropolitan Board of Works that
their refusal to permit houses to be brought out, and to allow only
one-storey shops to be erected on the forecourts of the houses in
Cambridge-road, between the Salmon and Ball Tavern and Parliamentstreet,
would prevent probable improvements which might otherwise
take place. A Committee of the Metropolitan Board viewed the
houses, and now a line of frontage has been defined by the Architect
of the Board; and permission will be given to bring out to that line
houses to their full height.
Application has been made to the Corporation of London asking
that Temple Bar might be re-erected in Victoria Park, or some of its
approaches.
Messrs. Forrest and Hilditch were appointed as delegates to attend
a proposed meeting at Mile End, which was to be convened with a
view of devising means to obtain the removal of the Hay Market in
Whitechapel to some other site, and in January it was referred to a
Special Committee to consider as to the removal of the market.
The plan of the sewer to be laid down by the freeholders in forming
the new street through Wilmot-square to Old Bethnal Green-road,
called Mansford-street, as originally prepared, was such as neither the
Vestry nor the Metropolitan Board could have approved; but the
Vestry took the opportunity of the sewer being formed to secure
facilities for the better drainage of the part of the parish north of the
Old Bethnal Green-road; and the freeholder agreed, on being paid
£200, to construct a sewer at a lower depth and of greater dimensions
than would have sufficed for his purpose, and to carry it as far as the
Metropolitan Board sewer in Old Bethnal Green-road.
A Committee appointed to consider as to the possibility of effecting
the extinction of the Composition Rate met, but no suggestions were