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REPORT.
June, 1873.
Gentlemen,
It gives me much pleasure to again lay before
you a statement of the various works and other matters
which have been carried out by or which affect my
department, during the year ending March 25th, 1873.
Carriageway Paving.
But little work has been done by the Vestry under
this head, only 535 yards having been laid in the Burdett
Road, near to the Mile End Road, but the whole of
the centres of the Burdett and Commercial Roads have
been paved by the North Metropolitan Tramways Company.
The whole of the Grove Road has been paved
by the same Company, although they were only compelled
by Act of Parliament to pave the space occupied
by their rails, and eighteen inches beyond each of the
outer rails.
The work was commenced in Grove Road, in the
usual way, the Company only paving the space required
by Act of Parliament.
They had consented to a clause being inserted in their
Act which entailed the paving of the whole width of
that portion of Grove Road which is situate within the
parish of Bethnal Green, and upon my representing to
Mr. Hopkins, the Company's Engineer, how manifestly
unfair it would be for his Company to do more work
for one parish than they did for another, that gentleman
confessed the force of the argument, and advised the
Company to treat both parishes on the same footing,
which recommendation was adopted, and the whole of
the road in this parish was paved at the cost of the
Tramway Company.