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34
SURVEYOR'S REPORT,
For the Year ending Lady-Day, 1900.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my Seventeenth Annual Report on the
various matters connected with the departments under my
control.
PAVING DEPARTMENT.
The following are the principal carriageway and footway
paving works executed during the year:—
SOUTHWARK STREET.
The carriageway of this important main thoroughfare has
been paved with Jarrah wood from the junction with the
Borough High Street to the railway bridge crossing the street,
near the west end by Blackfriars Road, and with redressed
granite pitching from the bridge in question to the Blackfriars
Road.
The total area of the carriageway paved with wood is
about 14,000 supl. yards, and the area paved with redressed
pitching about 2,300 yards.
The Jarrah blocks were cut absolutely true to size, viz.,
9 inches long by 3 inches wide and 5 inches deep, no variation
in width and depth being allowed whatever; the blocks were
laid on a foundation of 6 to 8 inches of Portland cement concrete,
floated up to a proper surface, and were grouted in with