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of that thoroughfare, near the pedestal lamp column at the Borough
end of Southwark Street. Owing, however, to urgent representations
made by this Board to the Company as to the obstruction,
inconvenience, and danger which would result from the running
of Tramcars so near the Borough High Street, particularly on
market mornings, when the traffic to and from the Borough Market
is very great, they have consented not to run them beyond the
principal entrance to the Hop Exchange, except on Sundays and
Public Holidays. The works are being proceeded with in the adjoining
Parishes of Lambeth and St. George-the-Martyr, and will
shortly be commenced in St. Saviour's, notice to that effect having
been received in May last from the Engineer of the Company.
Lighting.
The Board has accepted an offer made by the South Metropolitan
Gas Company to undertake the lighting of the public lamps in
Southwark Street, which are now supplied by meter, upon the same
terms as the other lamps, viz., £3 17s. per lamp per annum,
subject to an abatement of 5 per cent. if paid within a month after
Quarter Day. The present cost is somewhat in excess of that
amount. The Company have announced a reduction in their
charge for the erection of street lamps, from £3 to £2 17s. 6d.
The Board has substituted one of Sugg's burners for the three
lights on the standard column opposite the London and County
Bank, Borough; and has placed a similar burner, and also one of
Bray's, at the crossing in Southwark Street and Southwark Bridge
Road, in order to test the comparative cost. The Anglo-American
(Brush) Electric Light Company supplying the electric light on
the central lamp column at the west end of Southwark Street have
consented to reduce their charge for the same to £60 per annum,
a sum equivalent to the cost of lighting the similar lamp at the
east end with gas.
Bed Cross
Place.
In conformity with an order of the Metropolitan Board of
Works, dated the 23rd December last, the several houses and
premises in the line of thoroughfare extending from Borough High
Street to Red Cross Street, and known by the names of Red Cross
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Court and Red Cross Square, in the Parishes of Saint George the
Martyr and Saint Saviour, Southwark, have been re-numbered,
and the whole line of thoroughfare has been named "Red Cross
Place. S.E."