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The Vestry having considered the provision of the Housing of the Working Classes
Act, 1890, it was "resolved that it be referred to the Medical Officer of Health to
"report to the Vestry all cases in this Parish requiring action to be taken under the
"said Act."
The negotiations between this Vestry and the East London Railway Company for
the paving of Railway Avenue, between Albion Street and Rotherhithe Street, have been
brought to a successful issue, and in consideration of the said Avenue being made up
and paved as a footway only, in lieu of a carriageway and footway, the Company agreed
to pay the proportion of the cost of such paving due from them. An amended estimate
was accordingly prepared, and the cost thereof apportioned amongst the several owners
or lessees in and abutting upon the said Avenue, and Tenders for such paving were
subsequently received, that of Messrs. A. C. W. Hobman & Co. being accepted, and the
work has since been carried out.—Posts have been placed at the south end of Railway
Avenue to restrict the use thereof as a footway only, and at the north end a gate has
been erected, under an agreement with Mr. Edward Talbot, to whom permission has
been granted, during the pleasure of the Vestry and with the approval of the East
London Railway Company, subject to the payment of a nominal rental to draw over a
portion of the said footway for the carriage of timber to and from Rotherhithe Street
and his premises in the said Avenue.
Complaints having been made to the Vestry of the obstructions caused by tradesmen
and costermongers placing barrows and goods upon the carriageway in the Lower Road,
the Vestry passed a resolution empowering the Clerk to take the necessary steps to
enforce its order for the removal of such obstructions and to prevent the recurrence
thereof.
Several parties were subsequently summoned at the Greenwich Police Court for
obstructing the public way with barrows and wares, and lines were inflicted by the
Magistrate.