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Wapping.
The sum of £982. 6s. 2d. has been received from the Metropolitan
Board of Works, being a contribution of one-third of the expenses
of completed improvements in High Street, and lied Lion
Street, Wapping. The widening of Wapping Street and Red Lion
Street upon the sites of Nos. 115, 116, 117, 118, and 110 Wapping
Street, and Nos. 22, 23, 24 and 25, Red Lion Street, has been completed,
and the surplus ground has been hoarded in and advertised to
be let for building purposes. The Houses Nos. 1, 2 and 3, Crass
Alley; Nos. 3, 4, 5 and G, Upper Gun Alley, and Nos. 98, 99 and 100,
Wapping Street, have been purchased and pulled down. Negotiations
are pending for the purchase of Nos. 102, 105, 106, 107, 108 and 109,
Wapping Street, three houses in Cross Alley, and one house in Upper
Well Alley.
General.
By arrangements with the London and Blaekwall Railway
Company, the Company have fixed dripping pans under some of the
bridges crossing streets in the district.
New Offices.
The freehold houses Nos. 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31, on the west side
of White Horse Street, belonging to the Board, have been pulled
down, the materials sold by auction, and the ground has been
cleared for the site of the proposed new offices of the Board, arrangements
having previously been made with the tenants to give up
possession. The plans of the new offices prepared by the Surveyor of
the Board, as the Architect, have been approved, and the building will
be commenced forthwith.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient Servant,
CHARLES DUNCH,
Surveyor.