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STREET LIGHTING.
At present there are in the Parish of Lewisham 672 lamps
lighted by the South Metropolitan Gas Company and 714 lamps
lighted by the Crystal Palace District Gas Company. In the
Hamlet of Penge there are 365 lamps lighted by the Crystal
Palace District Gas Company. The present charges for lighting
the ordinary street lamps, including lighting, extinguishing,
cleaning, painting, &c., are : The Crystal Palace District Gas
Company, £3 10s. 9d. per lamp per annum, and the South Metropolitan
Gas Company £3 12s. 6d. per lamp per annum.
The Crystal Palace District Gas Company reduced the price
1s. 7d. per lamp per annum from Lady-day last. The South
Metropolitan Gas Company, in accordance with their letter of the
21st February, 1884, which I mentioned in my last Report,
increased the price 10s. per lamp per annum for lamps more than
75 yards apart (the statutory distance), and £1 per lamp per
annum for lamps more than double the statutory distance viz.,
150 yards apart, this came into operation at Michaelmas.
I prepared a special plan and register of the distances apart
of all the lamps lighted by this Company, and by moving several
lamps, and erecting new ones, the number of overdistance lamps
has been reduced to 24.
The following will show the new lamps erected:—
Lewisham.
Adelaide Road 2
Bath Place 1
Berlin Road 2
Blythe Hill 1
Blythe Hill Lane 1
Bradgate Road 2
Bromley Road (Rushey Green) 1
Brookdale Road 2
Burghill Road 3
Cockshed Lane 3
Colfe Road 1
Comerford Road 2
Dacres Road 3
Devonshire Road 1