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Paving Works
The following materials have been used in repairing the roads during the vear
ending 25th March, 1881, viz.:
Broken (guernsey Granite 352 cubic yards
Gravel and Hoggin (from Tramway) 122 „ „
Slop and Snow Carted 6345 loads
Water for Watering Roads 5904 van loads
Cartage of Materials 1597 loads
Broken Stone (from Tramway & Paving
Works 215
Sifted Stone, ditto 1015 „
The portion of the Carriageway outside the new paving laid by the Southwark
and Deptford Tramways Company on each side of their Tramway, extending from
Union Bridge to the Deptford Lower-road, and in the Deptford Lower-road from Unionroad
to the entrance to the Surrey Commercial Docks, has been taken up and relaid,
under a Contract with Mr. Thomas Turner, of Stanley Bridge Wharf, Chelsea.
The old pitcher paving taken up in the carriageways upon the execution of the
Tramwav works by the Southwark and Deptford Tramways Company, has been laid in
the following Roads in this Parish, viz.:
In the Rotherhithe New-road, from the Deptford Lower-road westward to the slope
of the Bridge over the East London Railway; the approaches to Plough Bridge, and
in the Carriageway, Commercial Dock-road, from the east approach to Plough Bridge
towards the entrance to the Surrey Commercial District of the Surrey Commercial
Docks.
The said paving in the Kotherhithe New-road was laid under a Contract with Mr.
Thomas Turner, of Stanley Bridge Wharf, Chelsea, and the paving of the approaches
to Plough Bridge and in Commercial Dock-road under a Contract with Messrs John
Mowlem & Compy., of Grosvenor Wharf, Westminster.
Upon the execution of the paving works at the approaches to Plough Bridge, and
by arrangement with the owners and occupiers of the property abutting thereon, the
said approaches to Plough Bridgt were raised to an improved gradient.
The footwav paving in Clarence-street has been relaid under the contract for
Paving .Jobbing \Vorks, at a cost of £154 11s, 0d.
The roadway and footways in Dodd's-place, Clarence-street, have been made up
and paved at the cost of the Vestry.
The Vestry having deemed it necessary and expedient that the portion of the
Oldfield-road situate in this parish should made up and the footways paved, an