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REPORT.
To the Vestry of the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town.
June, 1889.
Gentlemen,
In laying before you my 20th Annual Report I am
gratified at being able to inform you that much useful work has been
done during the past year, and a lasting benefit will ensue therefrom,
but those long periods during which everything was" made to last a
little longer" are now being felt with severity.
The experiment tried of laying Rock Hill or Caithness flags I do
not consider was eminently successful. No doubt it is very hard
and durable, but owing to the fact that the faces are the natural
cleavage of the rock, a certain amount of inequality must of necessity
exist, and again, the difficulty in cutting and fitting it to footways of
unequal widths is so great as almost to prohibit its use in such cases.
The quantity of work executed during the year is as follows:—
PAVING WORKS.
The following works have been executed by your own workmen:—
New Paving, squared and laid 10,863 ft. sup.
Old do. taken up and relaid 17,260 „ „
Ditto, redressed and relaid 1,757 ,, ,,
New Curb 100 ft. run.
Old do. relaid 8,063 „ „
Curb redressed and relaid 1,885 „ ,,
Old pitching relaid 13,431 ft. sup.
Old channel relaid 691 ft. run.
New Tees Scoriae Brick Channel laid 17,451 „ „
The cost of these works was for labour £594 & 7
„ „ material 897 17 2