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preventing the tide flowing over the Stairs, by having a gate fixed
across the passage, which is shut on every occasion of high tide.
By Order of the Board, a letter was addressed to the Metropolitan
Board, suggesting that that Board should purchase the
house over Union Stairs, to enable the passage way to those Stairs
to be raised and widened, so as to keep out the water from the
Thames ; and a reply has been received from the Metropolitan
Board stating that the Vestries and District Boards being liable
under the Metropolis Local Management Act for the raising and
management of all public Docks and Stairs, and that many of such
bodies (including the Limehouse District Board) having already
executed such works, that Board saw no reason why an objection
should be made to the general rule in the case referred to.
PROPOSED COMMUNICATION BETWEEN
NORTH AND SOUTH OF THAMES.
A Letter having been received from the Whitechapel District
Board of Works, with reference to the question of obtaining an
efficient mode of communication between the North and South
sides of the River Thames, at some point below London Bridge,
inviting the aid and co-operation of this Board with a view to
urging upon the Metropolitan Board the consideration of the
subject, a Committee has been appointed by this Board to confer
with Committees appointed by the Whitechapel District Board
and the Vestry of St. George's-in-the-East upon the subject.
NEW BRIDGE & PLATFORMS AT STEPNEY
STATION.
The works in connection with the construction of the new
Bridge across the Commercial Road, and the new Platforms across
York Street East and York Road have been completed, except in
minor matters, and the Station opened for general traffic.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient Servant,
CHARLES DUNCH,
Surveyor of the Board.