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The principal Carriageway and Footway Paving Works
executed during the year are as follows:-
A portion of the Carriageway of the incline leading to Blackfriars
Bridge has been relaid with new 3-in. x 9-in. Aberdeen
Granite Pitching, an area of 1,180 superficial yards; the whole
of the incline from the south side of Stamford Street to the
City boundary on the north side of Upper Ground Street
has now been paved with New Stone, that portion adjoining
the City Boundary, an area of 1,000 yards having been paved
in January, 1889
Blackfriars
Road.
The Footway on the North side of this street from Blackfriars
Road to Broad wall has been paved with new 2½-in.
Tooled York Stone Paving; a portion of the Curb has also
bean redressed and refixed; 3,554 superficial feet of York
Paving, and 425 feet of Curb has been laid.
Gt. Charlotte
Street.
The Footway on the North side between Worcester Street
and South Street has been relaid with new 2½-in. Tooled York
Paving, an are 1,141 superficial feet, 165 feet run of Curb
was also redressed and refixed.
Union Street
The Footway on the East side from Bankend to Messrs.
Barclay's Main Gates was relaid with Greenmore Granite
Paving—this hard Granite was specially selected and dressed
for the work, the Footway is subject to very heavy and rough
wear—barrels, casks, &c., being constantly rolled over its
surface; the York Stone with which it was formerly paved
was continually being broken and needing repair, but since
the Granite Paving has been down no repairs have been
necessary; the area paved with Granite is about 560 superficial
feet.
Park Street.
A portion of Carriageway at Bankend which had been
enclosed by a hoarding erected during the carrying out of the
widening of Cannon Street Railway Bridge has now been
paved with stone of the same description as the Bankside
Carriageway.
Bankend.
A short length of New Footway has been formed in Stoney
Street on the East side by the South Eastern Railway
StoneyStreet