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Blackfriars
Road.
The Paving works referred to in my last Annual Report, an???
for which a loan of £2000 had been obtained, have been delaye???
until recently in consequence of the Pimlico, Peckhain, an???
Greenwich Street Tramways Company having served notice of thei???
intention to proceed in the spring of this year with thei???
authorised lines along the Blackfriars Road; it being though???
inexpedient to execute such paving while any likelihood existe???
that the pavement would be afterwards disturbed, and the???
Company being under an obligation to pave at their own expen???
a considerable portion of roadway in connexion with their lines???
The Tramways were accordingly begun about April, and are nov???
carried beyond the boundary line at St. George's, and th???
pavement has been laid down simultaneously by Messrs???
Mowlem & Co., who are contractors both for the Company an???
this Board. The margins of the road only having to bo mad???
good, the pavement has extended lineally 200 feet beyond th???
point originally estimated for, and the southern side of Edwar???
Street has been reached. New channels have also been laid dow???
to St. George's, and the urinal underneath the Railway Bridge
has been re-erected.
London
Chatham and
Dover Railway
Company's
"Works.
By an Act of Parliament passed in 18G4, and by subsequent
Acts, the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company obtained
powers, inter alia, to acquire the site and soil of John Street,
Christchurch, also a portion of Holland Street, Blackfriars Road,
and to widen their Girder Bridge over Southwark Street, for the
purpose of extending their lines and obtaining additional station
accommodation.
The Company, in carrying out these improvements of their
railway, will have to widen Green Walk, making it of the
clear width of fifty feet throughout, and construct a subway
for foot passengers from the eastern part of Holland Street
authorised to be taken, to the Blackfriars Road, clauses having
been inserted on the part of this Board for that purpose while
such Bills were in Committee of the House of Lords. The
Company are also bound by agreement to pave Green Walk.
The time originally limited for acquisition of the lands would
have expired, but for the Act of 18G6 extending the time; and
the works, which are now being rapidly proceeded with, are
to be completed by the 14th of July next. The subway is to
be maintained and lighted at the Company's expense, and kept
open for the use of the public from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Triangle,
Union Street.
In accordance with applications made by this Board to the
City Authorities in the early part of last year, the Bridge House
Estates' Committee have taken down the palisades which enclosed