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Miscellaneous.
Jamaica Level Improvement.
The Improvement and Paving Works on the site ofthe old Mill Stream, J amaica Level, have
been carried out and completed by this Vestry at a total cost (including site), of £1694 5a 6d
of which amount the Metropolitan Board of Works contributed £-60, and the vestiv of
Bermondsey £275, thus leaving the sum of £1159 -5s. 6d. to be defrayed by this Vestiy.
Boundary Roads.
The completion of the proposed new agreement with the Vestry of Bermondsey, for
maintaining, cleansing, and watering the boundary roads West Lane, Jamaica Level, Manoiroad,
and Rotherhithe New-road, stands over for the present.
Urinal, Jamaica Level.
An iron urinal for six persons is about to be erected in the centre of the road, Jamaica
Level, opposite the side front of the "Queen Charlotte" P.II.,at or about twenty feet from the
footpath of Jamaica-road, at the joint expense of the Vestry of Bermondsey and this Vestry,
the repair and future maintenance thereof will also be borne by the two V estries in equal
moieties, and a contract has been entered into with Mr. Jennings, Sanitary Engineer, for the
erection thereof, which is to be carried out under the direction ofthe Vestry of Bermondsey.
New Roads and Streets.
The Metropolitan Board of Works have approved of the formation of the following new
roads and streets in this parish, viz.:—
Two new roads, 40 feet wide, branching out of Rotherhithe New-road, by South London
Railway Station, to be called " Granliam-road" and " Parfitt-road," together with a connecting
road, also 40 feet wide, at the end of the same.
Five new streets, 40 feet wide, to be respectively called " Tissington-street," " Warndenstreet,
" Westlake-road," " Silverlock-street," and " Silwood-street," and the continuation of an
existing street to be named " Luxford-street," in connection with the Rotherhithe Branch New
Road.
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Also six new roads, 40 feet wide, leading out of Jamaica Level and Rotherhithe Newroad,
to be respectively called " Abbeyfield - road," " Aspinden - road," " Nelldale - road,"
M ossmgton-road, " Pedworth-road," and " Ray mouth-road."
Mr. Thome's Forecourts, New Road.
It appearing to the Vestry that on the erection of two houses in the Rotherhithe New
road, near the South London Railway Station, the forecourts of the houses were brought out
too far, an encroacied upon the public footpath there, and the owner having declined to
make any alteration a summons was taken out at the Greenwich Police Court against Mr.
Thorne, the Leaseholder Builder, in respect of such encroachment; the case was partly
heard on the 13th April last, and adjourned to the 27th April, for the Magistrate to view the
locality, in the meantime. The Magistrate ultimatelydecided that the Forecourts were not
improperly erected, and consequently dismissed the summons, but offered to give the Vestry
a case for the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench . The Vestry however, resolved to take
no further steps in the matter