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quent upon these alterations will amount to about £100.
The vestry have also decided to replace the street lanterns
in Regent Street and Waterloo Place—many of which are
defective and obsolete—with "Metropole" lanterns, by which
it is anticipated the lighting of this important thoroughfare
will be still further considerably increased. Larger burners
have been fixed in Broad Street over the urinal, upon
Ingestre Buildings, and at the north end of Berwick Street
respectively, and additional lamps have been placed in
Burlington Gardens, and Warwick Street, Golden Square.
New lamp columns in harmony with those placed in the
new street by the Metropolitan Board of Works, have been
erected at Piccadilly Circus, at a cost of £4 each, exclusive
of lanterns and fixing.
An arrangement, has been made with Messrs. Sugg & Co.
to substitute their lanterns for those of another maker which
were originally fixed to certain of the refuge lamps, and to
maintain the same for six years, the cost for purchase and
maintenance to be the same sum per annum that the lanterns
have hitherto cost for repairs only; at the expiration of the
six years the lanterns will become the property of the Yestry
without further payment.
The Yestry have assented to the Metropolitan Board of
Works fixing small tablets to the street lamps for the purpose
of indicating the position of the fireplugs and hydrants.
PRIVATE LAMPS.
The Vestry some years since decided not to permit the
erection of Private Lamps, except upon the following conditions:—
1. That no part of such Lamps shall be less than 10 feet in height
from the public footway.
2. That no such Lamps shall in any case project further than the
inside of the kerb bounding the footway.
3. That all such lamps shall be entirely free from writing or any
trade devices, except in such case as Medical Men, Post Offices,
Sweeps, Fire Engines, or other positions where they would be a
public guide in cases of emergency.