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The principal carriageway and footway paving works
executed during the year are as follows :-
The carriageway and footways of Bankside from Moss Alley
to Clink Street have been paved with new stone.
The carriageway has been laid with new 4"x9" Guernsey
granite pitching on 9 of concrete.
The footways have been paved with new 3" tooled York
stone and new 6" x 12" granite edge curb.
The area of the new carriageway is about 2,200 superficial
yards; nearly 4,000 superficial feet of new 3" York stone has
been laid, and 1,300 lineal feet of new 6"xl2" granite curl:
fixed.
Bankside has now been entirely repaved throughout its
whole length with new stone; the first portion was completed
in the year ending Lady Day, 1887.
The carriageway of Newcomen Street from the boundary
at Crosby Row to the Bough High Street has been entirely
relaid; about 750 superficial yards of pitching was relaid only,
about 400 yards was redressed and relaid, and 325 superficial
yards of new 3"x8" Guernsey granite pitching was laid on
6" of concrete, about 500 feet run of block channel has been
refixed, and 160 feet of 24"x12" granite tram redressed and
refixed, about 30 feet of new granite tram was supplied and
fixed in order to make up the deficiency caused by the worn
state of the old granite.
The carriageway of Southwark Street from Southwark
Bridge Road to the Borough High Street has been taken up
and relaid, the pitching was carefully sorted and the deepest
stones laid in the line of the heaviest traffic; the area relaid is
nearly 5,200 superficial yards.
During the time this work was proceeding the South London
Tramway Co. constructed an additional line of rails as
sanctioned by this Board in a portion ot the street, they also
abolished a short length of line which then existed, and the)
replaced the whole of their old rails with new steel rails of an
improved pattern.
The carriageway of Park Street from Stoney Street to the
Bankside.
Newcomen
Street.
Southward
Street.
Park Street.