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26 Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Southwark.
The new Street through the Mint from Blackman Stree
Great Dover Street has at last been opened by the Metropol???
Board of Works. The plans, &c., of the same were approved
the Vestry, and adopted by the Metropolitan Board in 1875. The ???
delay in carrying out this improvement was partly due to the S???
Eastern Railway Co's scheme for proposed new lines and wideni???
the Metropolitan Board and the Railway Company having requ???
in nearly every case the same property. The proposed new
was intended to follow nearly the line of the new Street; hap???
however, the Railway Company have abandoned their sch???
for the time, otherwise their new line would have very consider???
spoilt the improvement.
The City and Southwark Subway Company's Works are???
progress; the brickwork to the Station, Blackman Street, 200
in length being partly completed; and one of the iron tun???
having progressed as far as Newington Causeway, the other tunne???
far as Trinity Street, in both cases from Old Swan Pier, Lon???
Bridge. A subsidence has occurred in the Carriageway and Foot???
Blackman Street, over the Station, and also a collapse of Footway
Carriageway, Newington Causeway, in both instances, in my opin???
caused by the Subway Company's Works.
A Shaft 25 feet diameter has been sunk in Marshalsea R???
which will form an entrance to the Station, Blackman Street, and
Iron Tunnels are an average depth of 65 feet below the surface???
the Roads, and 10 feet 2 inches diameter in the clear each.
I beg respectfully again to urge on the Vestry the adoption of
average meter system as to gas lighting, which I feel confident wo???
result in a large saving to the ratepayers.