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The expense, after deducting the usual contributions made by the Vestry for the
number of years the property had been rated, was apportioned amongst the owners
of property in and abutting upon the said streets.
The paving of the carriageway and footways at the site of the improvements in
Kotherhithe Street, at the Gas Works, &c. has been carried out and completed under
a contract with Mr. William Etheridge for the sum of £l,950 0s. 0d. Some extra
relaying of paving was afterwards carried out in continuation of the improvement westward,
making a total cost of £2,365 8s. 9d. The old pitcher paving taken up on
the execution of the said works, has been relaid as far as it would go in paving portions
of the carriageways in Albion Street, Neptune Street, Kotherhithe New-road, and
in Commercial Dock-road, near the Lady Dock Bridge, at a cost of £274 8s. 9d.
On the application of Mr. Matthew Batten, the leaseholder of the whole of the
property in the new street named Credon-road, Kotherhithe New-road, the Vestry
sanctioned the carrying out by the applicant, of the work of making up the roadway
and curbing and paving the footways of Credon-road, under the supervision of the
Surveyor of Pavements of the Vestry.
In pursuance of a request of the Vestry to that effect, the owner of the private streets
named Slipper's-place, Winchester-street, Robert-street, Glebe-road and Hicklingstreet,
repaired the roadways and footways thereof; the surface drainage of the same
was also improved and amended where defectire.
The paving of the approach to Plough Bridge, and in the carriageway Commercial
Dock-road, from the east approach to Plough Bridge, towards the entrance to the
Commercial District of the Surrey Commercial Docks, has been carried out and completed
by Messrs. John Mowlem & Co., the contractors, at a total cost of £1372 4s. 1d.
Paving Jobbing Works.
Mr. William Etheridge is the Contractor for the Paving Jobbing Works, at a
schedule of prices. (For particulars of Contract see page 9.)
Tramways.
The section of the Southwark and Deptford Tramwavs in continuation of the
tramway from the southern boundarv of the parish Deptford Lower-road to High-street
Deptford, was inspected bv Major General Hutchinson ot the Board of Trade, on the
30th May, 1881, and the said section has since been opened for traffic.
Lighting.
Four additional ordinarv gas lamps have been set up and lighted during the past
year, vix.: one in the Deptford Lower-road, at the corner of Gomm-road, by the Baths
and Washhouses; one in Credon-road; one in Yeoman-street, and one in Deptford
Lower-road, at the entrance to Southwark Park, making the total number of lamps in
the Parish, lighted by the South Metropolitan Gas Company, 437.