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Metropolitan Board of Works not to adopt the suggestion,
and the name remains unaltered. Another suggested alteration,
to which objection was offered by the residents, was in
the case of King Street, Regent Street; here also the name
remains unchanged.
Two orders have been made by the Metropolitan Board of
Works during the year, for altering the names of streets in
this Parish, viz.:—
New name.
Names abolished.
No. of houses renumbered.
Lexington Street.
Cambridge Street and
Little Windmill Street.
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Ramilies Street.
Blenheim Street.
none
The completion of the improvement at Piccadilly Circus,
which involved the demolition of many houses, gave rise to
much discussion, not only with regard to the naming of the
new street, but also the renaming of the few remaining houses
in Tichborne Street. The latter the Vestry suggest should
be now incorporated with Piccadilly. For the new street
the Vestry suggested the name of St. James's Avenue, as
being specially applicable on account of the thoroughfare
leading to the heart of St. James's, and the name thus forming
an excellent guide to strangers visiting the west-end from
Bloomsbury and the Northern Railway Stations. This suggestion
was, however, not adopted, and the Metropolitan Board
of Works have given the name of Shaftesbury Avenue to the
thoroughfare, in connection with the proposed erection therein
of a memorial to the late Earl of Shaftesbury.
STREETS PARTLY SITUATE IN OTHER
PARISHES.
An order was made by the Metropolitan Board of Works
on the 6th March, 1857, placing that portion of Oxford
Street which is situate in the Parish of St. James under the
jurisdiction of the Vestry of St. Marylebone for all the purposes
of the Metropolis Local Management Act. The cost
of lighting, paving, cleansing, watering, &c., that portion of