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RENAMING STREETS, & RENUMBERING
HOUSES THEREIN.
The Metropolitan Board of Works have made orders for
renaming High Street, Stepney, Stepney High Street, and re-numbering
the houses in Love Lane, partly in Ratcliff, and partly in
Shadwell.
CONTRACTS.
The Contract for Sewer Works, &c , having expired at Midsummer,
1879, the same was, after consideration by the Works and
Survey Committee, renewed with the contractor for a further term
of 2 years, upon the same conditions as before, with the exception
of a small increase on same of the items for laying pipe sewers and
drains.
GENERAL WORKS.
An iron foot-bridge has been placed across Wapping Wall,
Shadwell, to connect the Metropolitan Wharf with the new buildings
on the north side of the street, in accordance with the terms of
the agreement entered into with the owners when the thoroughfare
was widened and improved by the Board.
An iron foot-bridge has been placed across Nightingale Lane,
Wapping, partly in the Limehouse District, and partly in the
Whitechapel District, by the London and St. Katharine Docks
Company, to connect the warehouses in the London Docks with
the warehouses in the St. Katherine Docks, upon terms sanctioned
by the said Boards respectively.
The exterior and interior of the Board's Offices were thoroughly
repaired and decorated under two contracts.
The Board having determined to plant Trees in the Burdett
Road, tenders were received for the same, and a contract entered