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opportunity for re-opening this question and endeavouring to carry
out the long-needed widening of Queen Street. Negotiations wore
entered into with the church authorities as to acquiring a strip of
land off the churchyard about 250 feet long by 12 foot wide, so as
to widen the road to 45 feet, and the Board agreed to purchase the
land for the sum of £1500, upon certain conditions, the said sum to
include the expense of any application by the Vicar and Churchwardens
or other parties for a faculty or any other proceeding for
obtaining authority for the sale, the expense attending the moving
of any bodies or coffins or other works required to comply with the
faculty or other authority, and the cost of erecting wall and iron
railing enclosing the now boundary line of the churchyard.
The Metropolitan Board have agreed to contribute the sum of
£600 towards the cost of the improvement, and application has
been made to them to grant the Board a loan for £900, the
remainder.
So soon as the faculty is obtained the works will be proceeded
with, and the Board hopes that before many more weeks are passed
the Improvement will bo completed.
Traffic returns were taken with result as follows:—
Foot Passengers.
Vehicles.
From 7. a.m. to 10 p.m. on
Monday, January 29th, 1883
11,105
1944
Tuesday ,, 30th, ,,
10,524
2183
Wednesday ,, 31st, ,,
9755
2113
Thursday, February 1st ,,
9469
2089
Friday, ,, 2nd ,,
7094
2090
Saturday, ,, 3rd ,,
14,412
2031
Total for 6 days
62,359
12,450
High Street, Fulham, Improvement.
The Board has long had under consideration the desirability of
improving the entrance to High Street, Fulham. at a point opposite
London Road, and an offer being received from the free holder after
negociations, to sell his freehold interest in Nos. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and
10a, High Street, further negociations were entered into, and the
Board resolved to acquire the premises and to carry out the Improvement
at a cost of £2100. The property was acquired, the
houses pulled down, the road has been widened, and a great
improvement has boon effected.
The Board is about to sell the surplus land, and expects to receive
half the net cost of the improvement from the Metropolitan Board,
and a loan for the remainder.
Crown Road Improvement.
The enormously increasing traffic between Fulham and Hammer -