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2. Your petitioners are the Board of Works for the Fulham
District comprising the parishes of Saint Peter and Saint Paul,
Hammersmith and the Parish of Fulham and have jurdisdiction
under the said Metropolitan Management Acts of the Roads and
Streets in the said area and other powers.
3. The Bill amongst other things proposes to give power to
the Metropolitan Board of Works to make and execute the following
Improvements and widening in the Petitioners' District:—
(6) Hammersmith Improvement.
Th e widening of King Street East on its north side in the
Parish of St. Peter and St. Paul Hammersmith such widening
to commence at the Broadway and to terminate at a point
about 130 yards to the East of Rowan Road. Also the widenof
Brook Green Road on its west side in the same Parish, such
widening to commence at the Broadway and to terminate at
the south side of the Fire Brigade Station in Brook Green
Road.
4. King Street East is part of the Great Western Road, and is
one of the most important main thoroughfares in the west of London
leading from Hyde Park Corner to Hammersmith Bridge to
Brentford and to many other towns and places beyond. It has a
very large and continually increasing general public as well as
local traffic but that part of the road from The Broadway, Hammersmith
to Rowan Road (described in the Bill) is very narrow and
the necessities of the increasing general public and local population
and traffic require that the same should be widened so that such
portion of the road should have a clear width of not less than 60
feet and which widening can be made and executed at a reasonable
expense.
5. Brook Green Road is a much used main thoroughfare
and communication between Notting Hill Bayswater and Paddigton
and The Broadway and thence on through the Great
Western Road to Kew Bridge and from The Broadway to Hammersmith
Bridge and thence on to Barnes and other places, and
will also so soon as the thoroughfare now being constructed between
the Uxbridge and Harrow Roads across Wormwood Scrubbs is
completed receive a very large accession of traffic from the neighbourhoods
lying Northwards.
6. The population of your Petitioners said Fulham District is
greatly on the increase, and was in
1871 - 66,041 and in
1881 - 114,811.
7. The said improvements and widenings being urgently needed
and required your Petitioners have made applications to the Metropolitan
Board of Works to include the said improvements and
widenings as Public and Metropolitan Inprovements in any