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The Carriageway of Aspinden Road has been made up and the footways paved
by Contract with Mr. Chas. Kent, at a cost of £419 which will be home by the
Owners of property in the Road and the Vestry agreed to take payment of the amount
by instatments as follows viz.—One half of such cost beforethe works were commenced,
one fourth in six months, and the remaining one fourth in twelve months from the
commencement of the work.
The Carriageway Rotherhithe Street at the King and Queen Granary has been
repaved. the portion of ground purchased for the widening of the Street at that spot
has also been paved and thrown open for traffic at a cost altogether of £841 13s. 9d.
for such paviug under Contract with Mr. Thomas Turner of Kings Road, Chelsea.
Paving Jobbing Works.
Mr. William Etheridge is the Contractor for Paving Jobbing Works at a schedule
of prices (for particulars of Contract see page 9.)
Improvement Works.
The widening of Rotherhithe Street has been continued from the King and Queen
Granary, 62 feet westward by taking a portion of Bull Head Wharf, at a cost of
£210 which sura includes the re-erection of the boundary wall, and gates to the wharf
and the Vestry have applied to the Metropolitan Board of Works for a contribution
towards the expense of the improvement. The section of the Carriageway at Bull
Head Dock, and Bull Head Wharf including the ground so purchased has been paved
with new Granite Pitching, at a cost of £301 15s. 6d.
Lighting.
Nine additional Gas Lamps have been set up and lighted during the past year,
viz. 5 in Raymouth Road, 3 in Aspinden Pond, and 1 at the corner of Cranham Road,
2 Lamps have been discontinued in the lower portion of Commercial Street, which has
been taken into the Surrey Commercial Dock premises, making the total number of
Lamps lighted by the Surrey Consumers Gas Company 380. (For particulars of contract
see page 9.)
Cleansing Watering, &c.
Mr. Alfred Thomas Hobman continues to contract for the supply of men. horses
and carts at per day for man, horse and cart, and for the removal of sweepings from
the whole of the Roads and Streets, (after the same has been swept up by the Labourers
employed by the Vestry) to a shoot provided by the Vestry.
Mr. A. T. Hobman, also contracts for the supply of horses, harness and drivers
for the Vestry's Water Carts. (For particulars of Contract see page 9.)