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Tablets have been placed in Stepney Causeway, under the name
of the street to indicate the position of the Homes. The tablets
were fixed by Dr. Barnardo at his expense in accordance with
conditions specified by the Board.
ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
A Notice was received dated 29th .Tune, 1888, from Messrs.
Deacon & Co.. Solicitors for the London Electric Supply Corporation,
Limited, of the Company's intenti0n to apply to the Board of Trade
for a provisional order, to be continued in the ensuing session0 of
Parliament, whereby it was proposed to authorise the Company to
supply Electricity for any public or private purposes in the various
Parishes and Districts in the Metropolis and that the proposed area
of supply would include the whole of the Limehouse District.
A similar Notice was also receiver dated 29th June, 1888, from
Mr. E. R. Creed, Secretary of the South Metropolitan Electric
Supply Company, Limited, of the Company's intention to apply to
the Board of Trade, in the ensuing session, for a provisional order
for power to supply Electricity for lighting and other purposes in
certain streets and places within the Limehouse District.
Both of such Notices were subsequently abandoned.
IMPROVEMENTS.
The Footway in the Commercial Road, opposite the Town Hall,
Limehouse, has been reduced in width, so as to facilitate the carriage
traffic.
The Footway on the west side of Upper Well Alley, ha* been
reduced in width to 1 ft. 6 inn., so that two vehicles can pass.
The purchase from the Receiver of Police of the piece of ground
at the corner of Amoy Place and Birchfield street, required for the
setting back the building line at the north end of the latter thoroughfare,
and referred to in my last Report, has been completed and
the land has been thrown into the public way and paved by tinBoard's
Contractors.
The London Laborers' Dwellings Society, having purchased a
number of houses on the east side of Now Gravel Lane, from the
Bull public house to Wapping Wall and pulled them down
and cleared the ground for the purpose of erecting Artisans'
Dwellings, an opportunity occurred to complete the widening
of Wapping "Wall, the centre portion of which was widened
by the Board in 1871, a moiety of the cost of the improvement