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The Board of Works for the Poplar District, addressed a Communication
to the Board on the subject of the extension of Bridge
Road, Poplar, to the West India Dock Road, Limehouse, asking
this Board to co-operate with them in endeavouring to have the
suggested improvements carried out as a Metropolitan Improvement.
The matter is now under the consideration of a joint Committee
consisting of certain Members of the two Boards.
The London and County Banking Company, having purchased
the house and premises in the East India Dock Road, at the east
corner of Birchfield Street, partly in the District of Poplar and
partly in Limehouse, for the purpose of erecting a Branch Bank, the
subject was referred to the Surveyor, with instructions to negociate
with the Company and the other owners of property on the east side
of the street in conjunction with the Poplar District Board as to
the terms upon which the necessary land could be acquired for
widening the street to 30 feet.
The negociations are still pending.
CAB RADIUS.
Five Members of the Board have been appointed to attend a
Meeting of Delegates, from several of the District Boards and
Vestries, at the Mansion House, on the 13th March, 1883, to discuss
the question of altering the Cab Radius, and the Meeting was
adjourned until 3rd April.
RE-NAMING AND RE-NUMBERING STREETS.
The Metropolitan Board of Works have made orders for
re-numbering the houses in Ropemaker's Fields, Oak Lane and
Nightingale Lane, Limehouse, and also for abolishing the subsidiary
names of Rickman's Rents, Linton Place, and Lockside, and re-naming
the whole "Lockside," and for re-numbering the houses therein, also
for re-numbering the houses in Thomas Street, Limehouse, and
Green Street, Ratcliff.