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ANNUAL REPORT.
LOANS.
The Board during the year ended 25th March, 1880, obtained
the sanction of the Metropolitan Board of Works to the
following Loans:—
£8450 from Metropolitan Board of Works for Paving and Sewering.
1100 „ „ Brick Sewer Bagley's-lane, &c.
3000 „ „ Purchase of Land, Broadway.
5400 „ United Kingdom Life Office for Asphalte Paving.
2300 „ Do. Raising River Wall at Wharf, &c.,
lane and Wandsworth Bridge-road, Erection
of Disinfecting House, &c. &c.
5000 ,, West of England Life Office for Erecting Stables, Sheds, Stores,
and other Buildings on Land rear of Broadway,
Hammersmith.
5105 „ Do. do. For Purchase of Horses, Carts, Harness, &c.
8820 „ United Kingdom Life Office for Wood Paving of King-street,
East and West.
WEST KENSINGTON STATION NORTH END ROAD.
The widening and improvement of the North End Road
from the West Kensington Station to Gibb's Green, has been
completed by the acquisition of a portion of the forecourt of the
premises in the occupation or ownership of Mr. C. N. Hemy,
Mr. R. Knight, and Mrs. S. Wallis.
The new path was then formed and paved by the Board
so as to continue the line from Baron's Court Estate, and the
carriageway widened.
MORNINGTON HOUSE.
The owner of these premises having offered to give up a
certain portion of the forecourts if the Board would undertake
to set the fence back, and the Board gladly availed itself of the
offer, the boundary fence was removed and set back to a new
line, the footpath and carriageway widened, and the entrance to
a new road leading from North End Road to the Hammersmith
Road in Vale Place considerably improved.
UNION ROAD.
An improvement was carried out in this road, the Burial
Board setting back the boundary of the new Burial ground, and
the Board defining the path and constructing cesspools for
surfacedrainage in place of the old roadside ditch.