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TRAMWAYS.
The North Metropolitan Tramways Company have relaid the
carriageway paving in Burdett Road, abutting on their line, and
have also laid down new steel rails; they have also relaid defective
portions of the carriageway in East India Dock Road, and
portions of the carriageway in Commercial Road
GENERAL WORKS.
The Commercial Gas Company have laid a new 6 in main in
High Street. Shadwell, from Love Lane to Glamis Road, and also
short length of new main in Coleman Street,
The tree guards in Burdett Road have been straightned snd
painted with indestructible paint. Seven new trees have been
planted in place of those which have died.
Pav«ment light* have been fix in High Street, Wapping, at
the corner of Church Court, in front of the premise, recently
erected.
LONDON HYDRAULIC POWER COMPANY.
Notice having been given by the Engineers and General
Managers of the London Hydraulic Power Company of the
intention of that Company to lay main in those portions of Upper
East Smithfield and Dock Street, within the limehouse District, as
shewn in the tracing accompanying the Notice, I had several
interviews with the Engineers of the Company, and arranged
with them and the Surveyor of the Whitechapel District
Board, that the main should he laid on the south instead
of the north side of Upper East Smithfield, and close to the kerb
on the west side of Dock Street.
The plan originally submitted by the Company with regard to
the main proposed to be laid in Nightingale l. me, Wapping, shewed
the situation of the main to be about the centre of the roadway, but
finding that much injury was being done to the carriageway, which
had been lately repayed, by the Company's works, 1 suggested that
the new main should be put under the footway instead of under
the carriageway. The Company thereupon submitted an amended
plan, to which the consent of the Board was given, and my
suggestion was carried into effect.