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proceeding with the preparation of the required plans and specifications.
In reply, the Metropolitan Board stated that the work of
survey, so far as the St. Saviour's District is concerned, was in a
forward state, and was being proceeded with as fast as possible;
but up to tho present time the plans have not been delivered.
Street
Nomenclature.
In compliance with an application on the part of this Board, the
Metropolitan Board of Works has ordered that, for the purpose of
distinguishing the same, the several houses and premises in the
line of thoroughfare extending from Southwark Street to Southwark
Bridge Road, and known by the names of Gravel Lane,
Great Guildford Street, and Sumner Street, in the respective
Parishes of Christchurch and St. Saviour, Southwark, shall bo
re-numbered; that the names Gravel Lane and Great Guildford
Street (so far as applies to the line of thoroughfare above described)
shall be abolished, and that the whole line of thoroughfare shall
be called Sumner Street, S.E. It has also been ordered that, for
the like purpose, the several houses and premises in the line of
thoroughfare extending from Sumner Street to Southwark Bridge
Road, and known by the names of Great Guildford Street and
Little Guildford Street, in the respective Parishes of St. Saviour
and St.-George-the-Martyr, Southwark, shall be re-numbered; that
the name, Little Guildford Street, shall be abolished, and that the
whole line of thoroughfare shall be called Great Guildford
Street, S.E. Tho first-named order has been carried out by this
Board; the second has been postponed on account of expected
alterations in tho locality of Little Guildford Street. The object
of tho change of name is to give Great Guildford (now Sumner)
Street an outlet, as to its nomenclature, into one of the principal
thoroughfares, in order to facilitate the description of its locality,
and to enable strangers to find it more readily.
Parliamentary
Schemes.
In November last, plans were deposited of tho London, Chatham
and Dover Railway, City and Suburban Traffic Station, South
London Tramways, and tho City of London and Metropolitan