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RE-NUMBERING AND RE-NAMING STREETS.
During the year orders have been made by the Metropolitan Board
of Works for
Re-numberine
Morpeth road.
Re-numbering and abolishing subsidiary numbers in
Abbey street.
Ditto ditto ditto
Derbyshire street.
Naming Hereford and New Derbyshire streets throughout
and abolishing subsidiary names.
Hereford street.
Naming Old Castle street and Virginia row throughout
Virginia road.
and abolishing subsidiary names.
Naming Tyssen and Turk streets throughout
Turk street.
and abolishing subsidiary names.
Naming Vincent and Mead streets throughout
Mead street.
and abolishing subsidiary names.
Re-naming Collingwood street, Boundary street
and re-numbering and abolishing subsidiary names.
Jacobs street.
TRAMWAYS BILL.
A Bill was introduced into Parliament by the North Metropolitan
Tramways Company, seeking powers to lay down tramways along
Bethnal Green road from the existing lines in Cambridge road to the
existing lines in High street, Shoreditch; and a Bill was introduced
by the East London Tramway Company, seeking powers to lay down
tramways along Bethnal Green road, and from Shoreditch along
Commercial street to the Docks; but no provision was made for a
junction with, or for running powers over any part of the existing
lines of the North Metropolitan Tramways Company lines.
A difference of opinion existed as to the advisability of permitting
tramways to be laid down in Bethnal Green road. At the meeting on
the 7th December, when the plans of the proposed lines had been
deposited only a few days, a memorial, purporting to be signed by 242
persons, objecting to tramways being laid in Bethnal Green road, was
presented by a deputation from inhabitants of the road. The subject
of the proposed tramways was referred to a committee of the whole
Vestry. At the Vestry meeting of the 18th January a deputation,
consisting of Mr. John Hales and several other gentlemen, attended
and urged the Vestry not to consent to tramways being laid in Bethnal
Green road; and a petition, purporting to be signed by 2,000
inhabitants, praying the Vestry to consent to the construction of the
tramways in Bethnal Green road, proposed to be laid down by the