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"To the London County Council.
"The Memorial of the Hoard of Works for the Limehouse
District, in the County of London, sheweth:—
"i. That your Memorialists arc one of the bodies mentioned
in Schedule B of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and
incorporated by Section 42 of that Act, and that under the said
Act the streets and highways of the Limehouse District arc
vested in your Memorialists, who have the control and management
and improvement of the same.
"2. That your Memorialists since 1855 have expended from
time to time large sums of money in widening the narrow
portions of the streets near the River Thames, and to which the
Metropolitan Board of Works largely contributed.
"3. That your Memorialists would call the attention of the
Council to the fact that the narrowness of the part of Broad
Street, Ratcliff, west of Hubbuck's Wharf, and the narrowness
and inconvenience of the western approaches thereto, cause
great loss and inconvenicncc to the public generally ; that vessels
are constantly arriving and departing from the large wharves in
the locality, and large quantities of goods arc shipped and
landed thereat, and delivered to all parts of London, including
the Railway Depots; that many of the passengers travelling by
the steam vessels are very much inconvenienccd in getting to
and from the wharves, it being a fact that that part of Broad
Street on many days in the week is virtually impassible for the
through traffic.
"4. That the construction of a new road from Broad Street
to Brook Street would greatly relieve the congested condition
of the traffic in Broad Street and form an alternative route
which would be largely used and be a great boon to the commercial
and trading interests of the Metropolis. The suggested
road is shewn on the annexed plan and coloured red ; it will
have a clear width of 30 feet and a length of 79 yards or thereabouts.
It is also suggested that a small portion of the Brook
Street area should be utilised for the purpose of forming a
better roadway through Cranford Street to Brook Street.
When completed it would form a new and important