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side. The increased space, and the old portion of
the footpath have been newly flagged. The entire
cost of this improvement amounts to £188 12s. 3d.
Various works were carried out in the disused
Burial Ground of St. Mary's, in preparing a concrete
foundation for the new iron railing next Manor
Place, also in levelling ground, forming and gravelling
footpaths, and executing sundry mason's work
to some of the footways there.
The breaking up of the ground in Grand Junction
Road, from Edgware Road to Gloucester Place, by
the West Middlesex Water Works Company, for the
purpose of laying a large main, 36 inches in
diameter, has caused much damage to the footway
pavements and roadway, also to the gulley drains,
and some of the manholes from the sewer. A short
time before the completion of the pipe laying, three
fractures in the Company's adjoining main occurred;
the water escaping and flowing into the basements
of several houses in Kensington Gardens Terrace,
and into the stables in Elms Lane Mews, also across
the wood pavement in Uxbridge Road, and thence
into the Serpentine in Kensington Gardens. The
cost of reinstating the works under the control of
the Vestry will be charged to the Company.
The ordinary trenches opened by Gas and Water
Companies, and others, have been reinstated by the
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