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Wood Paving Borough High Street
In December, also, the Board adopted a Report of the Paving
and General Purposes Committee, to whom the question of the
repaving of the Borough High Street had been referred, stating
that they were unable to recommend that wood should be
used for the purpose in view, and expressing an opinion that
the material to be employed should be 3x9 Aberdeen granite
pitching. In last June, however, a deputation of inhabitants
and ratepayers of the Borough attended before the Board and
presented a memorial expressing the regret with which the
memorialists had heard that it was proposed to re-pave the
thoroughfare with stone; urging the superiority of wood on
account of its comparative noiselessness and of its cleanliness,
and praying that the matter might be re-considered. The
Board referred the memorial to the same Commitiee, who
carefully re-considered the matter, and, in deference to the
earnest wish expressed by the memorialists, reported in
favour of the adoption of wood for a portion of the carriageway,
viz., from St. Thomas's Street to the boundary at St.
George's. The report was adopted by the Board, and arrangements
are now being made for carrying out tho work at the
earliest possible opportunity.
Board Room and Officer.
The lease under which the Board Room and Oilices in
Emerson Street was held expiring in June, 1891, the Board
placed itself in communication with the Churchwardens of St.
Saviour's, the freeholders, with a view to obtaining a renewal
of the same ; and, as the result of the negociations, it has been
arranged that the Board shall remain as a yearly tenant, at a
rental of £125 per annum.
Propsed Town Hall &c
At the requst of the request of the Vestry of Sr. Saviour's, the Board, also
in December, appointed three of its members as delegates,
viz., Messrs. Carter, Coles, and Sinclair, to consider, in conjunction
with the Overseers of the Poor for that Par if h and
the Trustees of the Borough Market, the feasibility of erecting
a central building for accommodating the various public
bodies, and an office for the receipt of rates, and to inquire as
to the advisability of adopting the Baths and Washhouses
Acts and the Public Libraries' Acts.
Royal Academy
In the year 1889, the Board, at the request of the Vestry
of Clerkenwell, petitioned the President and Council of the
Royal Academy of Arts to open the galleries of that Institution
on Saturday evenings during the whole period of the exhibition
from 7.30 till 11, in like manner as they are opened
during the last week of the exhibition, and at the same fee of
sixpence. The authorities, however, declined, stating, in reply,
that there were practical difficulties which rendered it impossible
to comply. In April last, a further communication was
received from the Clerkenwell Vestry, stating that they were