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RE-NUMBERING AND RE-NAMING OF STREETS.
Pursuant to orders of the Metropolitan Board of Works—so much
of the old part of Bethnal Green road as extends from Mount street
to High street, Shoreditch, and formerly called Church street, has
been re-named Church street.
Wellington street, Brady street has been re-named Pereira street.
Prospect place and Bishop's road have been named Bishop's road
throughout, and re-numbered, and the subsidiary names therein
abolished.
Rushmead Street and Mansford Street have been named Mansford
Street throughout, and Sheep lane has been re-numbered.
NORTH METROPOLITAN TRAMWAYS.
The extension of the Grove road Tramway from Old Ford road to
Cassland road, in Hackney,has been completed, and, after inspection
by the officers of the Board of Trade, has been opened for traffic.
The Tramway Company deposited a plan shewing the lines they
proposed to obtain Parliamentary powers to lay down along Bethnal
Green road from their lines in Cambridge road to those in High street,
Shoreditch. A petition to the Vestry of inhabitants of Bethnal
Green road asking the Vestry to withhold their consent to the
Company's Bill was presented. The Paliamentary Committee reported
that if it were possible to extend the proposed lines down Green street
and Eastward, they would be useful; but that the lines proposed would be
of little use to the public; and recommended that a petition against the
Bill should be presented, and that the Committee should negotiate
with the Company for the insertion in the Bill of clauses protecting the
rights of the Parish, and securing greater facilities for compelling the
Company to perform their obligations to repair the roads, and such
other clauses as might be for the interest of the Parish. The report
of the Parliamentary Committee was referred to a Special Committee
consisting of the members of the Works and Parliamentary Committees.
Subsequently there were presented to the Vestry petitions
of inhabitants and ratepayers of and in Bethnal Green road, and from
inhabitants and ratepayers of the Parish, praying the Vestry to give
their consent to the Bill, subject to such amendments as might seem
requisite for the interest of the Parish.