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proposed, belonging to the London Streets Tramways
Company.
Crystal Palace
Parade.
It will have been seen by the last Annual
Report that the Vestry had been compelled to
take legal proceedings in the Court of Queen's Bench, to
recover the sum of £2,926 8s. 2d., being the apportioned
amount due from the Company for the estimated cost of
paving and making up this Road, which front the entrance
to the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, and is known as the
Crystal Palace Parade. The Road was constructed by the
Company in the year 1855 when the Palace was erected.
The Crystal Palace Company obtained an Act of
Parliament in 1853 to enable them to divert certain
roads and purchase certain lands, and for further purposes
for erecting the Palace. It was enacted by the
4th Section,
"That it should be lawful for the said Company to
widen on the western side so much of the road from
Norwood to Sydenham and Dulwich, as forms the northwestern
boundary on which the building was erected (being
the land which forms the Parade), and for that purpose it
should be lawful for the Company to enter upon and take
and use lands shewn on the plans described in the book of
reference deposited therewith, in relation to the widening
of the said road, provided always that so soon as the said
road is so widened, the same shall be dedicated to the
public and shall be vested in the same persons in whom the
other part of the said road is vested." There had been no
express dedication of the Road under the General Highway