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The Clerk reportad that, acting upon the instructions of the Commits, he had written
to the parties interested in the property, and read joint letter he had received from Mr.
R. W. Walker and Mr. G. Wildman, agreeing to sell their interests in the property for the sum
of £800 net, the Vestry paying all costs; that he had not yet received a reply from Messrs. Still
and Son, the Solicitors to the ground landlord, but he believed they would be willing to take
£850 the same as the Vestry paid for the freehold interest in Nos, 85 and 87, Neptune
Street.
Resolved—That further letters be written to Messrs. Walker and Wildman, and to
Messrs. Still and Son, asking them to take less sums than L'SOO anil 1350 respectively, and
that the application to the London County Council stand over to await the result.
This was done, but with no satisfactory result, and on 22nd May, 1894, the Vestry
resolved to approach the London County Council with a view of borrowing a further sum of
£1150 to purchase the freehold and leasehold interests in the houses known as 81 and 83,
Neptune Street.
The Council sanctioned the loan of £1150 for the purchase of the above property as a
further site, and the loan was taken up on the 29th June, 1894, to be repaid by 50 annual
instalments of £23, bearing interest at 3|- per cent.
On the 17th July, 1895, the Works Committee reported to the Vestry that a ground
plan ot the site of the new Town Hall, etc., showing the frontage line of the buildings, was
submitted to them by the Surveyor, who reported that he had had an interview with the
Superintending Architect ot the London County Council with reference to the building lines,
who, whilst not binding himself until the actual depositing of the plans, said the Vestry would bo
able to build up to the fiontage line of the Old Drill Hall upon the Lower Road, at the corner
of Neptune Street, taking a straight line from the existing corner of the "Jolly Sailor" P.H.,
that with regard to the Neptune Street frontage, that street being over 40ft wide, and
there being no other houses on that side of the street near the site, the buildings could be
brought to the back line of the footway and about 10ft. from the kerb, in a straight line
from the betore-described corner at the Lower Road to the corner of the existing fence on