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to justify the Board in applying to the Home Secretary
for his certificate to permit their removal.
Mr. J. D. Link applied for permission to place two
seats on the footway in Cambridge Road, by the drinking
fountain, at St. John's Church, and permission was
given on condition that they should be removed if, in
the opinion of the Works Committee, they became
objectionable. In a short time the Committee were
compelled to ask for their removal, as they became the
resort of disreputable characters.
Paving New
Streets.
Plans, estimates, and apportionments were prepared
for the paving, &c., of Tyrrell, Cymon, and Charlotte
Streets, on the Tyrrell Estate; but on the proceedings
being commenced, the agents of Sir John Tyrrell offered
to pave the footpaths and put the streets into a satisfactory
state of repair, and submitted a specification of the
works they proposed to do. This was approved by the
Vestry, and the work carried out.
Estimates, apportionments, and plans were also
prepared for the paving of Strahan Road (£586 19s. 8d.),
Elliott's Row (£166 17s. 6d.), and Gloucester Passage
(£78 2s. Od.) Nearly the whole of these amounts has
been collected, and the work in each case has been
carried out.
Bishop's Road
Improvement.
The leases on the estate north of Bishop's Road, and
extending from Cambridge Road to the Workhouse
premises, having expired, and the property being in the
hands of the freeholders, negotiations were entered into
for the purchase of the forecourts of the property, at the
western end of Bishop's Road, for the purpose of forming
a footway. The freeholders eventually agreed to sell