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Certain arrangements have been made with some of the owners,
and negotiations are still in progress with others, and the Board
hopes that, by a combined effort, embracing contributions from
the Metropolitan Board of Works, the owners of land adjoining
the road, and the public funds, this most important work may be
undertaken and carried to a successful issue.
North End Lane, Red Cow Lane, Talgarth Road.
The necessary steps have been taken under the Highways' Act
for the stopping up and diverting of North End Lane from the
end of Great Church Lane to North End Road, and in lieu
thereof, has been constructed and dedicated to the public, the
Talgarth Road, and the road bounding the land belonging to the
Mercers' Company of London, Governors of St. Paul's School,
upon which land the Governors are now erecting a new school.
A great public improvement has been effected by the laying
out of these new streets.
Tramway—Uxbridge Road.—(Sale of).
The Southall, Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Tramway; the
Shepherd's Bush and Priory Road, Acton, Tramway; and the
Shepherd's Bush and Hammersmith Tramways, have been sold
to the West Metropolitan Tramway Company.
Hammersmith Bridge.
The Metropolitan Board of Works having determined to make
certain alterations to Hammersmith Bridge, the Board resolved
to endeavour to obtain a new bridge, and presented the following
memorial to the Metropolitan Board of Works:—
"Hammersmith Bridge. To the Honourable the Metropolitan
Board of Works. The humble memorial of the
Board of Works for the Fulham District in the County of
Middlesex, Sheweth, That your Memorialists, the Board of
Works for the Fulham District, are charged by the provisions
of the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855, and the
Acts amending the same, with the care and control of the
public highways within the said District, comprising the
parishes of Fulham and Hammersmith, and containing an
area of four thousand and three acres.
That within the Fulham District, which has a frontage to the
river Thames, of four miles and a half, extending from
Chelsea to Chiswick, there are three Bridges crossing the
river Thames, which provide the means of communication
through and from the said Fulham District, and the Parishes